Oh, yeah, I’ll do that. And y’all take care of y’allselves. —And write me.

Still, he stole an occasional glance as the mule again worked its way downfield.

Since February, we have been calling for the ridiculously named Consignia to change back to the good old Post Office. . . . [T]he chief executive, John Roberts, said of Consignia that it was a modern, meaningful and entirely appropriate name that describes the full scope of the Post Office in a way that the words ‘post’ and ‘office’ cannot. That was clearly hogwash managementese of the worst variety.

He spent the afternoon shaping a swagger-stick from the branch of jarrah and talking with Miss La Rue, who had sufficiently unbent toward him to notice his existence.