"But," she said, "do you know that Mullins calls you Mr. Male Ox, Mr. Maillaux?"
Maillaux looked at her with round, puzzled eyes.
"Only," Pam said, and now she was speaking to Jerry rather than to the others, "isn't that a contradiction in terms, really? Because aren't oxen - "
"Yes, dear," Jerry said. I've always understood so."
(from Murder Is Served, by Richard and Frances Lockridge)
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