The workmen lived farther along the line, in a sort of company town, which at present greatly resembled a Western mining-camp, though ultimately it was to be a bungalow town.

If you're a farmer in any Connecticut community the chances are that your next-door neighbor is a rurbanite. He lives in the country. He may call his home a farm, but he gets most of his income selling insurance, or working as a toolmaker in a brass factory, or teaching school or working on the road for the State Highway Department.

So about twice a week, he calls a day in advance to arrange a trip[…] through Access-a-Ride, the city’s door-to-door paratransit service for the elderly and the disabled.

… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […]