Reply #68: You Continue, Sir, To Ignore The Difference In The Stakes

[The Magistrate]

My grandsons routinely ruin window-screens; we repair them, but it is a trifle of little importance, the flies get in in summer-time anyway.

Even broken plumbing can be lived around for a while, while one assesses the prices and competence of various tradesmen.

Get that vivid line leading up the leg from a cut gone septic near the ball of an ankle, perceived through a haze of pain, and the stake is limb or life, and there is no time to waste in investigating prices.