1. A beggar lad showed us the house in a dank, narrow alleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived.
2. A blue van pulled up behind us.
3. A busload of tourists came in behind us, Maybe twenty Hawaiians in Hawaiian shirts, with cameras and funny hats.
4. A canary the bald eagle is not, but it should serve to warn us.
5. A car stopped behind us.
6. A Census Bureau study gives us the answer.
7. A cool desert wind wrapped us in dust as we sped along the bitumen.
8. A cooperative waiter helped us to order from the huge menu.
9. A couple of broken branches floated past us.
10. A couple of local people helped us dig out the car, which was by now completely stuck in the mud.