But delaying the reform was the cattle farmers' lobby and other landed societies, which were actively vying to counter the so-called Communist influence of the National Peasant Union, a powerful lobby challenging the status quo.

Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

In the hall. One large table, with frame. 10s. ij cobbordes 8s. j fourme, j chaire, and j kenninge measure, 12d.

A measure of length, the Chinese cubit, by Europeans called covid.