When I was a budding young guide, an old goose guide I was friends with said to me, in reference to all the fancy full body decoys and newfangled gear:
Boy, give me 100 flat black boards (silhouettes) and I'll kill every goose that lives.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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