You might now reason that even a 12-minute walk to the store to buy a can of beans is too great an expenditure of time, and that the fee paid for one-hour delivery is a fair price to snatch those minutes back into your life.

He skips 500 times a day and runs three kilometers a day to chase away his fatty bom bom blues.

“Dat frisky li'l nigger suah will be splatterdashed ef he fall offen dat mule's back !” And indeed it did look bad for the small colored boy.

A large map of Virginia and a series of hunting prints hung on the untinted walls, and there were racks for guns, and a work-bench at one end of the room, where guns might be taken apart and cleaned.