A hot dust rose from the roads, scorching the dry trees, and the yellowed lawns became a deep brown.

The lawn was a sheet of green velvet embroidered with flowers.

Bertel spends all his spare time on the other bits of grass, but the side lawn is the boys' plunder, where, by patiently working each day at grubbing out the roots at twenty-five cents a hundred, they expect, before the dandelion season is over, to amass wealth enough to buy an alluring red goat harness trimmed with bells that is on exhibition at the harness shop in town, for Corney Delaney.

"That lawn looks a bit of a golf course.