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"His battered old canvas fishing hat"

Sans-comma Questions:

  Is it a battered old hat used for canvas fishing?

  Does he have two battered canvas fishing hats of which this one is the older of the two?

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> Is it a battered old hat used for canvas fishing?

No, that would be his battered old canvas-fishing hat.

> Does he have two battered canvas fishing hats of which this one is the older of the two?

No, that would be his old battered canvas fishing hat.

PLEASE don't indent unless you mean to show code samples line-by-line.

I don't think its that big of a deal in this case; it didn't cause the window to stretch (Unless your browser is < ~650px). And it was a good example to have laid out like that.

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