diff --git a/Snippets/GzipCompression.swift b/Snippets/GzipCompression.swift
index 129198cb..4fd131f5 100644
--- a/Snippets/GzipCompression.swift
+++ b/Snippets/GzipCompression.swift
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import PNG
 let path:String = "Snippets/GzipCompression/example"
 
 guard
-let gzipped:[UInt8] = (System.File.Source.open(path: "\(path).gz")
+let original:[UInt8] = (System.File.Source.open(path: "\(path).gz")
 {
     (source:inout System.File.Source) -> [UInt8]? in
 
@@ -21,8 +21,20 @@ else
 }
 
 var inflator:Gzip.Inflator = .init()
-try inflator.push(gzipped[...])
+try inflator.push(original[...])
 
-let text:String = .init(decoding: inflator.pull(), as: Unicode.UTF8.self)
+let utf8:[UInt8] = inflator.pull()
+let text:String = .init(decoding: utf8, as: Unicode.UTF8.self)
 
 print(text)
+
+var deflator:Gzip.Deflator = .init(level: 13, exponent: 15, hint: 128 << 10)
+    deflator.push(utf8[...], last: true)
+
+let _:Void? = System.File.Destination.open(path: "\(path).txt.gz")
+{
+    while let part:[UInt8] = deflator.pull()
+    {
+        $0.write(part)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Snippets/GzipCompression/example.txt.gz b/Snippets/GzipCompression/example.txt.gz
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e6113b3e
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diff --git a/Sources/LZ77/Gzip/Gzip.Deflator.swift b/Sources/LZ77/Gzip/Gzip.Deflator.swift
index 74f7a6bd..77fef54c 100644
--- a/Sources/LZ77/Gzip/Gzip.Deflator.swift
+++ b/Sources/LZ77/Gzip/Gzip.Deflator.swift
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ extension Gzip
 }
 extension Gzip.Deflator
 {
-    mutating
+    public mutating
     func push(_ data:ArraySlice<UInt8>, last:Bool = false)
     {
         self.buffers.push(data, last: last)
diff --git a/Sources/LZ77/Gzip/Gzip.StreamHeader.swift b/Sources/LZ77/Gzip/Gzip.StreamHeader.swift
index 7e0d896b..7447822a 100644
--- a/Sources/LZ77/Gzip/Gzip.StreamHeader.swift
+++ b/Sources/LZ77/Gzip/Gzip.StreamHeader.swift
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ extension Gzip.StreamHeader
         }
 
         guard
-        case 0x1f_8b = input[bit, count: 16, as: UInt16.self]
+        case 0x8b_1f = input[bit]
         else
         {
             throw Gzip.StreamHeaderError.invalidSigil
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ extension Gzip.StreamHeader
             }
 
             //  This is little-endian!
-            let xlen:UInt16 = input[bit + 80, count: 16, as: UInt16.self].byteSwapped
+            let xlen:UInt16 = .init(littleEndian: input[bit + 80])
 
             bit += 96
 
@@ -85,13 +85,13 @@ extension Gzip.StreamHeader
     //  TODO: this is discarding all the metadata!
     func write(_ output:inout LZ77.DeflatorOut)
     {
-        output.append(0x1f_8b, count: 16)
-        output.append(0x08_00, count: 16)
+        output.append(0x8b_1f, count: 16)
+        output.append(0x00_08, count: 16)
 
         //  TODO: support MTIME
         output.append(0x00_00, count: 16)
         output.append(0x00_00, count: 16)
 
-        output.append(0x00_ff, count: 16)
+        output.append(0xff_00, count: 16)
     }
 }
diff --git a/Sources/LZ77/Inflator/LZ77.InflatorIn.swift b/Sources/LZ77/Inflator/LZ77.InflatorIn.swift
index f3b4140c..c33ba537 100644
--- a/Sources/LZ77/Inflator/LZ77.InflatorIn.swift
+++ b/Sources/LZ77/Inflator/LZ77.InflatorIn.swift
@@ -137,7 +137,13 @@ extension LZ77.InflatorIn
         }
     }
 
-    /// Returns bits in the low end of the returned integer.
+    /// Returns bits in the low end of the returned integer. The maximum meaningful bit `count`
+    /// is 16.
+    ///
+    /// The best way to think about the bit order is to imagine the bitstream as a single,
+    /// arbitrarily-precision integer. This means if you load a slice of the integer into a
+    /// ``UInt16``, the most-significant bits in the result will correspond to the bits that
+    /// appear later in the bitstream.
     ///
     /// ```text
     /// { b.15, b.14, b.13, b.12, b.11, b.10, b.9, b.8, b.7, b.6, b.5, b.4, b.3, b.2, b.1, b.0 }