Dave Richey OUTDOORS

"She was born on an assembly line in Detroit in 1928." -The Fish Car

I lurched foggily across the street and banged on the bar, "Drinks fer da house!" I ordered, suddenly going native. "Giff all da Paulsons in da place vatever dey vant." - Paulson, Paulson, Everywhere

"Then we could see it before we could hear it, a cloud of earth and sticks and stones - it was war, a bombardment - then nothing but the pulsing surge of the water racing past us. And all the while my father and old Dan and the rest of us stood there, silently watching the fishless waters of Lake Traver emptying into the lumber company's ruined beaver dam. The beaver dam had washed out." - Little Panama

"Up my way old township politicians never die; they merely look that way. Instead they become justices of the peace." - Paulson, Paulson, Everywhere

"Yantleman of da yruy," he said, rising and pointing scornfully at the fish net. "Who da hecks ever caught a gude Svede using vun of dem gol-dang homemade Finlander nets? Ay tank you!" - Paulson, Paulson, Everywhere