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At Woodbridge people did not make public messes of themselves. If they picnicked on a glacier they did up their eggshells in a neat package, which, in default of a handy bottomless pit, they took home with them and put in their garbage pails. That's the way nice people behaved, and what on earth was there to be gained by behaving otherwise?
He is a cannibal even the young and the sick of his own kind become the victims of his rapacious hunger and he will eat almost anything, living or dead, from the refuse in a garbage heap to the dainty egg of a willow-wren in the tiny, domed nest amid the briars at the margin of the river.
They liked her, and looked smilingly at the clock and approvingly at Carrie and at the covered garbage can and at the food draped with mosquito netting. "We're going to have to enforce those rules," they told Grandma. "There wouldn't be half the sickness if everyone minded as you do."
I grabbed hold of the druggist and said, 'Don't, I'll see him later. "Well, I couldn't stay in that town another minute. I hurried to the station and waited for the next train and kept thinking of John driving his garbage wagon, and his battered felt hat and his hangdog face until I thought I'd go mad. "That's all," laughed the prima donna, "That's my love story."
Gervaise took a few more steps into the courtyard, inhaling the characteristic odor of the slums, comprised of dust and rotten garbage. But the sharp odor of the waste water from the dye shop was strong, and Gervaise thought it smelled better here than at the Hotel Boncoeur. She chose a window for herself, the one at the far left with a small window box planted with scarlet runners.
There, amid the garbage from the coster-mongers' barrows and the refuse of the town, this remnant of a ruined woman lay in a half-drunken doze, until the golden sunlight mounted over the city houses and pierced the sultry gloom on the Sabbath morning. Another woman chanced that way.
The shores of the island at this point formed a lovely wide bay where canoes and ships too, if they should ever come could lie peacefully at anchor without danger from storms. In building this town the Doctor gave the Indians a lot of new ideas. He showed them what town-sewers were, and how garbage should be collected each day and burnt.
But at each bureau I was recommended to see the drivers upon their return in the evening; and I was compelled to give up the pursuit for that day. No wonder there was fever in the town, I thought, as I picked my way among the heaps of garbage and refuse lying out in the streets.
Houses burnt, horses taken away, agricultural implements wilfully smashed, fruit trees and bushes cut down, even the hedges around their little gardens, their cemetery violated and the remains of their dead strewn to the four winds of heaven. Their wells polluted with garbage and filth; in some cases deliberately poisoned, in others totally destroyed by dynamite.
I dressed in record time and went downstairs in three leaps. In the library, I found Aunt Lucy, wearing an expression that she might have shown if the garbage man had asked her to a dance. But Winnie was eagerly drinking in the story poured forth by the said reporter, who was quite evidently enjoying his audience. "Oh, Chet, this is Mr. Bemis of The Meteor.
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