In most parts of the United States, only about one out of five roadkilled deer will be an antlered buck . . . and by the next day, it will still be a dead buck, but it won't still be antlered if someone else has beaten you to it.

In first grade I learned how cruel kids could be. We were on the playground, and this boy, Andy, was laughing and calling Jan names: “Blindie” and “Ugly”.

though she did not suppose Lydia to be deliberately engaging in an elopement without the intention of marriage, she had no difficulty in believing that neither her virtue nor her understanding would preserve her from falling an easy prey.

Howsoever they pleaded, their pleas went unheard.