[…] all news media keep a supply of features on hand, waiting for a peg to make them topical.

Soon everything is in its appointed place except for Becky. And Becky does not have the faintest where that is.

We have also, for the first time, adopted text to scale up clean power and phase down dirty coal.

“Been huntin’ fuh mah mule. Anybody seen ’im?” he asked. “Seen ’im soon dis mornin’ over behind de school-house,” Lum said. “’’Bout ten o’clock or so. He musta been out all night tuh be way over dere dat early.”