(more common)

It is true that the Doocot was occasionally appropriated to other purposes than that of a tolbooth for the sorner, the drunken gipsy, the village idiot at the change of the moon, the swearing bluegown, and the contumacious birdnester on the sabbath; […]

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Most of the lard available at the grocery store is a by-product of the “other white meat,” lean pig, bred to meet demand when pork took the fall.