I had some faint recollection of having a penny-piece in my waistcoat pocket, and, pleased with the service he had rendered to us, I gave it him as his guerdon. Thank ye, sir—thank ye, sir—thank ye, sir, he cried, and immediately returned to his station near the footway.

With wildfires raging across the West, climate change took center stage in the race for the White House on Monday as former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called President Trump a “climate arsonist” while the president said that “I don’t think science knows” what is actually happening.

This is the same whompage level as 18/51 strength, 2 ranks over straight-18 (which is likely +2/+2 in 3E).

It is the good fortune of those who lay foundations to so inwrite their names in the annals of the institutions that they found that the historian can neither overlook them nor ignore them.