And what has been thus affirmed of other leading commodities; the blacksmith, for example, no longer making, but buying his horseshoes, nails, nuts, and bolts;

I didn’t know the store closes at five on Thursdays. Oh well, I’ll have to come back tomorrow.

There are games of cards known as bluff and poker, played by the most rash and reckless gamblers, in which a player loses all his stake unless he can keep on increasing it as fast as his adversaries; and many a luckless wight has been bluffed out of his savings on the Stock Exchange in the same way, although his bet was really made on a winning hand.

It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.