In one-third of these incidents, targets responded with threats of their own before propositioners made violent or threatening moves. These threats ended half of these incidents, while the others escalated to higher levels of force.

[…] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […]

But far from this, the blighted spinster is fair, fat, and — no ! never shall it be said that the Lotophagus ever attempted to solve that impenetrable mystery.

This can be avoided by expelling the water from the traps and filling them with kerosene, glycerin or some other nonevaporating material, thus insuring the comfort and health of subsequent occupants.