Hey, Mush! Tony Pellegrino called to Michael standing on the other side of the street. Set in Nonantum, Massachusetts.

You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.

This image, topped by a head as featureless as an axeblade, spoke in words condensed from scalding steam.

Now the month of Thoth was the first of the Egyptian year, because this month begins a new period.