Well boys & girls, I have returned to the perils of the land of the novel. Dad bought me a courdoroy cowboy hat and a copy of Don Quixote on Friday. So here I go back & forth with the 55 lb. dictionary I have because the smaller ones don't have crupper, sonorous, aplomb or even knights-errant. The words haunt me because once I skip over looking them up they pop up in the next paragraph. Tricky words! Should take me until next Christmas to get to page 1050.