Wow, Doc. That's heavy. Denis sat there pigging on the joint as usual.

Smitty, part Cheyenne and part Crow, is the only paid hand. He looks at you and smiles and says, “I never met a New Yorkian before.”

a pragmatically irrelevant proposition

The Pudgelys and the Pinkhearts and the Roundasses are all staring at her, slackjawed.