She took a bite of her lunch and shook her head.

I told her I was just checking the agricultural property section to see what farmland was doing.

I turned past the auto sales and smoothed the big gray pages flat on the table.

The legal notices took up a whole column on the right side of the page.

A bold headline near the bottom caught the fluorescent light.

It announced an open auction for an eighty-acre parcel in section twelve.

My thumb stopped moving along the edge of the scaler.