Not all saltmarshes are suited to habitat modification, but where they are, runnelling provides long-term and cost-effective control with minor non-target impacts.

William Dampier (1729), chapter II, in A Collection Of Voyages: Volume III, London: James and John Knapton, page 402: “The Greater Bill-bird or Toucan. It's Breast is bright Gold, the Belly and Thighs red, Tail black tipt with red.”

And, of course, my impulsive misreaction created a far bigger mess — for my customers, for my parents, and for me — than my original mistake of not writing down who ordered what.

Today we are apt to think of a fair as a mileless potpourri of trylons and flood-lighted futuramas, but in the yesterdays of our greatgrandfathers, a fair meant a cattle show.