In lizzie bright and the buckminster boy. which setting detail makes the phippsburg townspeople most nervous about allowing african americans to stay on malaga island? the island’s tall pine trees the island’s rocks that boats can hit the island’s closeness to the mainland the island’s high waves that beat the shore

Read the passage below and answer the question. somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. in the excerpt above, the phrase "stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning" suggests that despite the heat, men still dressed up the men in the town were vain men's clothing appeared its best on hot days the men were not accustomed to wearing nice clothes