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Updated: May 16, 2025
Nothing short of fire is often deemed sufficient for the purpose. There were various methods of applying it. Sometimes we are told of a shovel being made red-hot and held before the child's face; sometimes he is seated on it and flung out into the dung-pit, or into the oven; or again, the poker would be heated to mark the sign of the cross on his forehead, or the tongs to take him by the nose.
The area of this whole floor equals one hundred feet by fifty-seven. k, is an open space, nearly on a level with the cow-chamber, through the door p. s, stairs to the third story and to the cellar, d d d, passage next to the walls, five feet wide, and nine inches above the dung-pit. e e e, dung-pit, two feet wide, and seven inches below the floor where the cattle stand.
One of our fellows, we found, had retired to his bed-room during the fight; he said he was 'demoralised. Another, a porter, had hidden himself in a place of great sweetness and safety the dung-pit of the stable yard. Our premises, however, though damaged, were not destroyed, and our stock had not been stolen.
The turf hut where the cattle were housed at present was too small, and out of repair; he would have a stone-built shed with double walls and a proper dung-pit under. It was to be done now. But there were many other things to be done as well, one thing always leading to another; the building work, at any rate, seemed never to be finished.
She has misunderstood herself, like so many of us, the woman murmured, 'but I think eventually ... she flung out her thin little hands. 'However, these are things that each lonely soul must adjust for itself. 'Indeed, yes, said Midmore with a deep sigh. The old tricks were sprouting in the old atmosphere like mushrooms in a dung-pit.
I said, God forgive me, that I had seen it in the dung-pit, and that George had carted it away. 'And didn't know de value! cried Ady. 'Worth de necklace of diamonds; and both she and Kalee broke out into such a yell as made the house ring. Yet with all this, Kalee still loved the gloomy man.
The next cut is a transverse section of the same cow-room; a being a walk behind the cows, five feet wide; b, dung-pit; c, cattle-stand; d, feeding-trough, with a bottom on a level with the platform where the cattle stand; k, open area, forty-three feet, by fifty-six.
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