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"Beware, brothers! The vat is drained! There is no paga! Who has made off with the paga? Where is it hiding now? Who is hiding it? We know, do we not? What price will they charge now? A silver tarsk for a cup? Search the tavern! Find it! Tear up the floors, pull apart the walls!" Fortunately, the incoherent suggestions, the reeling, drunken importunings, the inflammatory proposals, of the belligerently tottering sawyer were not taken seriously, particularly as he almost immediately lapsed into unconsciousness and was carried to the side. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 46, Sentence #276)

"paga has been ordered," said the Vat Master. "It will doubtless arrive momentarily". "Ho!" cried the sawyer. "Beware, brothers! The vat is drained! There is no paga! Who has made off with the paga? Where is it hiding now? Who is hiding it? We know, do we not? What price will they charge now? A silver tarsk for a cup? Search the tavern! Find it! Tear up the floors, pull apart the walls!" Fortunately, the incoherent suggestions, the reeling, drunken importunings, the inflammatory proposals, of the belligerently tottering sawyer were not taken seriously, particularly as he almost immediately lapsed into unconsciousness and was carried to the side. On the other hand, his obstreperous, ranting analysis of the situation did serve to apprise the tables of a hitherto generally unrecognized problem, one which might soon prove acute, particularly as a number of patrons were on the point of beginning, or continuing, their evening, rather than prematurely terminating it. "Be patient, noble friends," called Ho-Tosk, "dear sharers of a Home Stone, and esteemed guests of Port Kar; it is true we are a bit short of paga now, for which deprivation I accept all responsibility, but more is even now hurrying to our portal. Wait a moment, a moment. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 46)