You have got an ouncil?—Yes. What commodities do you weigh on that ouncil?—Hay and straw principally; mangolds and turnips.

[…]I gathered my gun and boondie and went with him.

This is illegitimate, since it is only the current bigotry in the society that causes property values to drop—as the result of white flight and the subsequent reduction in the size of the purchasing market.

This done, he removed the hat; and having touched his forehead lightly with a silk handkerchief, for the afternoon sun was warm, gazed about him with a grave distaste. “A scaly neighbourhood!” he murmured. The young man’s judgment was one at which few people with an eye for beauty would have cavilled.