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Of all filthy quarters in the filthiest of cities, I think the Jewish Quarter in Marrakesh has a fair chance of ranking first, outside it, rubbish, a manure-heap eighty feet high, which no one troubles to remove; inside the walls, black mud, feet deep, streets which are sewers, collections of dead dogs, rotting vegetables, refuse of all sorts; amongst it all, a dirty people, callous beyond belief as regards sanitation, with sore heads, sore eyes, matted rags.
He has a pass from the colonel, who is acquainted with him." What business had he to interfere with other people's affairs, that peasant whose hands were still reeking of the manure-heap?
The drive out through the arched gateway is an astonishment; it is the same length and breadth as one of the gates of Copenhagen. Villages and peasants' houses here assume a more well-to-do aspect than in Zealand, where one often on the way-side imagines one sees a manure-heap heaped upon four poles, which upon nearer examination one finds is the abode of a family.
Presently the stronger took the other up in his arms, carried him out through the door, and, having pitched him considerately upon the manure-heap in the yard, returned to his place with the expression of the victorious cat. But he reckoned without his hostess. She was not tall, but her cubic capacity took up more place in the world than that of two or three ordinary mortals.
In England the farm-house faces the road and the premises lie behind. Here manure-heap, granary and pig styes open on the highway, the dwellings being at the back. In England a man's home, called his castle, is no more defended than the Bedouin's tent. Here at nightfall the small peasant proprietor is as securely entrenched within walls as a feudal baron in his moated chateau.
'That was one of Lord Castlemallard's houses eh with the bad roof, and manure-heap round the corner? and, 'Where's the pot-house they call the Salmon House? doing a good business eh? and at last 'I'm told there's some trout in the stream. Is there anyone in the town who knows the river, and could show me the fishing? Oh, the clerk! and what sort of fish is he hey?
The Abbe took a few steps more, with downcast head; and then over the palings he flung the flowers upon a manure-heap. The Brother, who had already had his own meal, seated himself astride a chair, while the priest dined.
'The Dervish rush took place later. 'So I laid her in these ruts. That was where she must 'ave scraped her silencer a bit. Then they turned sharp right the ruts did and then she stopped bonnet-high in a manure-heap, sir; but I'll swear it was all of a one in three gradient. I think it was a barnyard. We waited there, said Leggatt. 'But not for long, said Pyecroft.
One school is a manure-heap in process of fermentation, and one of the local authorities has said that in this way the children are warmer in winter. One school in Cataluna adjoins the prison. Another, in Andalusia, is turned into an enclosure for the bulls when there is a bull-fight in the town. These conditions excited the indignation of a Spanish educator by the name of Francesco Ferrer.
But I shall get a delicate manure-heap, so fit and rich that it's quite a pleasure. But, Jakoba, where is the coffee?" "Only let it come in through the door," said Jakoba, somewhat angrily. "You certainly ate something before you went from home. Let me attend to the affairs of the ladies, and do thou attend to the gentlemen, so that they may not stand and get weary."
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