But the sky was cloudless, and as the sun rose everyone settled down and some even nodded off, which Jake Early regretted, feeling that when the Union soldiers came they should find black folk not at their ease but smartly arrayed as a welcoming company of free men and women.

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Completely unmarked in the Derby box, the Trinidad star rose to meet Fortune's cross and nodded it home.

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With five minutes to go until half-time, Hangeland should have given Fulham the lead when he rose high to meet Davies's corner but the Norwegian nodded wide of the left post with the goal at his mercy.

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He nodded, swayed, bounced, and once (when discussing social security) rose to his tiptoes.

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Five minutes before half-time Rose made amends, finding space in the box to side-foot home after Carroll had nodded down a deep ball from Michael Mancienne.

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