"During each group's performance, members of our high school sports teams will be circulating with donation cans. If you hate the music, drop in a dol...ar, if you love it, drop in a twenty. Or any amount in between. Cash, checks, money orders, the deed to your grandfather's silver mine, we take it all. If you want to donate by credit card, Don Middleton and his team from the Prospector's Bank are set up back by the statue of Jack Hargus, or you can call him at five five five two seven eight one.. I would reciprocate the kisses, with great enjoyment, for, to me, the moisture, warmth and sensitivity of lips and tongue replicate the sensations of other, more secret and less accessible areas. I would slip my hand up her skirts, to the division of her pantalettes (which were nothing more than two tubes of frilled and embroidered linen, held up with a drawstring) and caress what she called her ‘little quimmie’, finding the delicious lips, and the entrance to the tunnel beyond. Then I would. We also ended up tossing some of the cargo and ballast overboard. That didn’t do much either, but the less the ship weighed the less hull there would be in the water. Even simply getting all the water out of the bilges helped lighten the ship.We learned that the ship, named Thunder of the South, was out of New Isle. That was one of the Pirate Isles that was feuding with South Isle. They had captured it from the South Isle people. That may have been why it had “South” in its name. Apparently. ‘Really pretty.’ ‘It is, isn’t it?’ Mum agreed. ‘I hoped you’d like it as well.’ As well. The moment she said the words, I knew she’d bought one for herself. And I could already guess whose portrait would be beaming out from the garish frame. Taking pride of place on her mantelpiece… ‘Well, I s’pose we’d better be off,’ I heard Dad say as I carefully set my gift down on the coffee table, his voice sounding strangely far off considering he was standing next to me. ‘Don’t want to hold you up.’.