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the Carolinas; by the middle of April its crest has reached the
Potomac; a week or ten days later it is in New Jersey; then in
May it sweeps through New York and New England; and early in June
it is breaking upon the orchards in Canada. Finally, the event of
June is the fields ruddy with clover and milk-white with daisies.

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... to burying it."

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highhole/high-hole.

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Jim, you do this ... thing through".

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