Crocamander Quest

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Please, Ms. Brownlee! I assure you I have nothing against women. I’ve been married to one—the same one—for twenty-odd years, and we get along fine.

Even if I’m not a male chauvinist, though, I bloody well won’t change my rule against taking ladies on time safaris, at least along with men. Not that women can’t rough it in the outback as well as men. But when you mix the sexes in a small, close group, you’re asking for trouble. When people are thrown together so intimately, they either form close attachments or come to hate one another. Adding the sexual factor merely makes a difficult situation impossible. I’ll tell you how we once tried such a mixed party and what came of it.

If your women’s-rights organization would like to get up an all-woman time safari, we’ll consider it. Of course I should have to see how my wife would take it. When she heard I had signed up five clients, including a woman, to the Triassic, she said:

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