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Select two excerpts from Passage 2 that help the author develop the importance of the steamboat in the town.
“Once a day a cheap, gaudy packet arrived upward from St. Louis and another downward from Keokuk.” (paragraph 11)
“Before these events, the day was glorious with expectancy; after them, the day was a dead and empty thing.” (paragraph 11)
“The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving.” (paragraph 11)
“Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf.” (paragraph 12)
“And the boat is rather a handsome sight, too. She is long and sharp and trim and pretty; she has two tall, fancy-topped chimneys,” (paragraph 12)