Back of these board sidewalks were merchants who lived in houses with green blinds, and they pronounced that word "korrawl!" The livery barn of Samuel Poston grew a story in stature, and there was such a thing as hay--hay not imported in wired bales.

In the little city there were three buildings with bells above them.

There was a courthouse of many rooms; for Ellisville had stolen the county records from Strong City, and had held them through Armageddon.

There were large chutes now at the railway, not for cattle, but for coal.

Strange things appeared.