He said that if you ever get bit on the leg by a snake you better get some doctorin’ real quick. Well, I remembered Granma McCutcheon goes in fer do...torin' in her spare time, so I jumped up and ran out the back, hollerin’ fer Granma McCutcheon to help me. I was hollerin’, “Granma! Granma! I need yer help! I done been bit on the pecker by a snake, and it got all swoll up. I squeezed on it to stop the poison from spreadin' so’s my pecker wouldn’t fall off and all this here while stuff come out. That was just too close today to getting one of us seriously hurt. Tomorrow, we were going out with more insurance.By the way, I did apologize to Baker for doubting her today. She grinned and said, “Dammit, Emil, had I known what today was going to be like, I would have been even more nervous.”Before we went down this time, I asked the replicator for a device that I could use to throw a rock a hundred yards. I wanted a little more operating room this time. That business of 45 yards was just. One day he was tempted by a beautiful girl from the local village. She came to his cave one night as naked as you are now and he couldn't resist her charms. The Village had a bad harvest that year and the girl was blamed and burnt alive as a witch. He then came up here as an act of penitence and stayed up here for forty years. They would come and leave food and water for him every few days and sit at his feet imbibing wisdom and all that stuff. Then finally they came up to see him and he had. I think now of what has changed with me. Wondering if I’ve really changed at all, and have you. Will you like my current girlfriend? I thought it was her I was rushing to meet. I’m sure you’d like her. She’s pretty and sweet and kind, funny. We met through a common friend, you know her, they work together. They were lovers but it didn’t last, their needs were not the same. Blushing now, knowing that you will ask and I will shake my head no. She’s not like that, not like you. For a long time I.