When summer ended—when the State Fair closed and the heat broke, when the last green hop vines had been torn down along the H Street road and the tule fog began rising off the low ground at night—[…]
for the greater good
[…]transit-duties were lowered with 50 percent and other measures were taken in the interest of a freeër trade and commerce.[…]“More than ever”, so ran a declaration of the government of 1849, “the want of such measures (for freeër trade) is evident”.
We've got more meat than we shall know what to do with, Edward. Take the horse, go down to Charlie Bell's ship-yard, borrow a tackle, and ask Edmund Griffin to come and help us dress him; but firstmost let's get him into the barn, out of the hot sun.
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