"She was sleeping. He nudged her gently and whispered a suggestion. Her eyes opened wide and startled. "No, no, a dozen times no!" "Only a doezen times?" he asked, and then leered. "My deer," he whispered, "think of the fawn you'll have!""
— Fredric Brown

January 1, 1970

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A werebuck in the animal form is trying to seduce a deer. The original intended pun "doezen" is incorrectly edited to read "dozen" in some reprints, e.g. From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown (February 2001), ed. Ben Yalow, NEFSA Press, Framingham, MA 01701, .