and all of my gratitude to Carole who keeps BRing for me despite her overloaded schedule.

“You know, when we have nothing, Perry usually assigns us lousy dog-show stories and stuff like this…” She gave him a bright smile, and was happy to see he gave her an equally bright one back.
“So what has he assigned us for today?”
“Nothing yet. We could go ask him, or we could wander the streets looking for a big story.”
“Does it work?” he said, surprised.
“Sometimes. You get to find new sources… You know what a source is, don’t you?”
“Of course, Lois.”