Don't you know that a vocabulary rich in slang is poverty stricken in forceful and well chosen English?
The wealth of the one is the poverty of the other." "Where is he going ?" enquired the boy.
"Out by way of Edmonton, Calgary, Moose Jaw, Minneapolis, so on to Pittsburgh.

Partner with him, young lawyer, expert in mines, unmarried.
He is coming back in a couple of months or so for a big hunt.

Wants us to join him.

Really extraordinary, when you come to think of it, how much information he was able to convey in such a short space of time.
Marvellous gift of expression!" "What did you say, dad ?" "Say?
Oh, as to his invitation! Why, I believe I accepted, my boy.

It seemed as if I could do nothing else.