I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

Plenty of men will treat women kindly, but Nice Guys like to think that behaving kindly earns them a gold star. It doesn't.

And thicker then in sunne are Atomies, Flew bullets, fier, and slaughtered dead mens cries.

A smicker boy, a lither swain, Heigh ho, a smicker swain, That his love was wanton fain, […]