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Schnitzel's no worse than the president nor the canteen contractor." He waved his hand at the glaring coast-line, at the steaming swamps and the hot, naked mountains. "It's the country that does it," he said. "It's in the air. You can smell it as soon as you drop anchor, like you smell the slaughter-house at Punta-Arenas." "How do you manage to keep honest," I asked, smiling.
The smug shopkeeper on the main street had scarcely heard of him until the day after the final scene at the slaughter-house, when his great carcass was carried to Hine's taxidermist shop and there mounted, to be exhibited later at the Chicago World's Fair, and to be destroyed, alas! in the fire that reduced the Mulvey Grammar School to ashes in 1896.
"Why, many a time I've looked at people smoking, and thought well I wish I could do that; but I never thought I could," said Tom. "That's just the way with me, hain't it, Huck? You've heard me talk just that way haven't you, Huck? I'll leave it to Huck if I haven't." "Yes heaps of times," said Huck. "Well, I have too," said Tom; "oh, hundreds of times. Once down by the slaughter-house.
All those whose hearts sickened with disgust and horror before these slaughter-house scenes, all those who longed for a little more mildness, a little more justice, were all recruits marked out for the peaceful army of the Christ.
Gradually that, too, died away with the last reverberations of the mysterious sound that had saved us, and we found ourselves alone or at least unmolested for in the darkness we could see nothing, except the dim outlines of the prostrate forms at our feet. The cavern was a shambles. The smell was that of a slaughter-house.
"There is a governor's rank, and an archimandrite's rank, and an officer's rank, and a doctor's rank, and every profession has its own rank. You don't keep to yours and they won't allow it." The slaughter-house stood behind the cemetery, and till then I had only seen it at a distance.
A big blacksmith here, the other day, kicked some boy out of his shop, and Tommy, on his cart, happened to be passing at the time; and he just jumped off without a word, and went in and worked on that fellow for about three minutes, with such disastrous results that they couldn't tell his shop from a slaughter-house; paid an assault and battery fine, and gave the boy a dollar besides, and the whole thing was a positive luxury to him.
Those were savage times when this old slaughter-house was in its prime.
He should be keeled no other way. No. And in the ring there was always a hope to make man pay but in a slaughter-house p-ff-f. And some day, my friend, the bull will obtain his revenge. Have no doubt of it. Bull-fighters die one way all matadors surely. Let them attend to it long enough and no fear some day the bull shall get heem. View Torellas now.
Thus, he could not bear to hear the sound of his own steps, the grit of gravel; and therefore never willingly walked in the road, but in the grass, on mountains and in woods. His senses were acute, and he remarked that by night every dwelling-house gives out bad air, like a slaughter-house. He liked the pure fragrance of melilot.
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