He was now waiting on his fourth attempt to be shipped to him from the shop he had hired to manufacture it.Three weeks after the Phelps clan came to w...ork for Sam and his family he again made a trip into Nacogdoches. This time he took Dove with him to help. They found and shot the game he needed to deliver with no problems. After giving it a quick field dressing they put it into the wagon with the other items they brought for sale and headed for town. This trip turned out to be a quick one. They. Priscilla's gasp of pain and the sudden jump of her bottom told him that its effect was just as he had wanted.He delivered the next five strokes with rhythmic deliberation, at intervals of about three seconds, the last three even harder and slightly quicker, seizing the exact moments when the increasingly desperate movements of Priscilla's hips presented her bottom for a moment in the most accessible position. His calm and practiced eye, fixed relentlessly on his target, saw each blurred stroke. Let me cook and clean and act like this is my house again. I want to really live here. I don't want to feel like I'm one of these relics that I collected."I think that last statement shocked us both. Audra was contrite as she replied, "I just wanted to make you feel at home. We both want you to feel like family. Don't we, Joe?"I was quick to add, "Of course we do. I've lived alone for so many years that I've almost forgotten what family means. Please let me know if I mess up. This is new for. While we haven't found any diseases that affect the Sa'arm it seems to me to be a good bet that if such diseases exist that rats would be a reasonable vector for it as well. Also rats love to gnaw on everything. Part of that is their nature ... They must gnaw in order to keep their teeth worn down. They also taste everything to see if it is good to eat. I can just imagine having them hide in the small spaces of a Sa'arm warren would be apt to cause the Sa'arm to tear down their own houses (so.