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In the hospital part the floors were very clean, and the head nurse, a bright, cheery woman, seemed like sunshine among her patients. She showed us all her curiosities, the little baby born into an overcrowded world on the street, the little one, beautiful as an angel, found on the street in a basket.
"We only want to go to Butte," answered Roger. "Oh, all right then. Take the forward car, next to the baggage-car. But I don't think you'll find any seats. We are swamped because of the land sale." The boys ran forward, after making sure that their baggage was tumbled into a baggage-car. As the conductor had said, the cars were overcrowded, and they had to stand up in the aisle.
This is a common fact in our American life. By our high schools the daughters of plain workingmen are raised to a state of intellectual culture which seems to make the disposition of them in any kind of industrial calling a difficult one. They all want to teach school, and schoolteaching, consequently, is an overcrowded profession, and, failing that, there is only millinery and dressmaking.
Hewing out their plantations in the primeval woods amid the undisturbed shadow of centuries, breaking a soil thick with ages of vegetable decomposition, sleeping in half- faced camps, where the heavy air of the rank woods was in their lungs all night, or in the fouler atmosphere of overcrowded cabins, they were especially subject to miasmatic fevers.
Occasionally, he shot a furtively terrified glance across the aisle where another boy with a mop of red hair, a freckled face and a mouth that seemed overcrowded with teeth, made faces at him and conveyed in eloquent gestures threats of future violence. At these menacing pantomimes, the slighter lad trembled under his bulging coat, and he sat as one under sentence.
The great man was surrounded, and Galt and Bassett, leaving him to his assailants, passed into the dining-room. Glancing hastily down the long room filled with small, overcrowded tables, they joined several men who were seated near an open window. "Hello, Major. Glad to see you, Mr. Slate! How are things down your way, Colonel?"
He was a gentleman of importance it was indeed unfortunate the management appreciated Mr. Briskow's patronage they hoped he and his family would return to the Notch sometime. "Mebbe you got some other rooms that would do us," Gus ventured. It was too bad, but the hotel was overcrowded.
We passed through the entire town; the streets were broad, the bazaars very extensive, and so overcrowded with men, that we were frequently compelled to stop; it happened to be a large market. Upon such occasions in India, as well as at great festivals and meetings of people, I never once saw any one intoxicated, although there was no lack of intoxicating drinks.
After the crush and struggle of the overcrowded streets, which she had not until now left behind, it was natural she should be so impressed. 'I walkit as far as frae the Trongate to the Briggate, an' I saw naething but twa-three sheep an' a robin red-breist sittin' in the hedge, she said musingly. 'It's breist was as red as it had been pented. I didna ken ye could see them leevin'?
I'm tired of paying £6 a week at the beastly overcrowded dog-kennel, entitled the 'Royal' Hotel save the mark! and I'm game even to try a boarding-house, but," and here he rubbed his chin, "this 'refined family circle' business, you know?" "They all say that," remarked the sub.
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