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Updated: June 30, 2025
When we say a ‘shed,’ we do not mean the conservatory sort of building, which, according to the old song, Love tenanted when he was a young man, but a wooden house with windows stuffed with rags and paper, and a small yard at the side, with one dust-cart, two baskets, a few shovels, and little heaps of cinders, and fragments of china and tiles, scattered about it.
"How many hours do you suppose it costs me to earn five shillings, you infamous boy? Don't cry like that, or I'll throw a doll at you. Pay five shillings fine for you, indeed! Fine in more ways than one, I think! I'd give the dustman five shillings to carry you off in the dust-cart." The figure in the corner continuing to whine and whimper, Miss Wren covered her face with her hand.
One must take everything simply, just in the day's work. One must keep in touch. Keep in touch with your world, the great world, the world which cultivates pleasure and incidentally makes history, as well as with the world of the dust-cart I know that well enough if one's to be quite sane.
Clare was just breaking into a song he had heard his mother sing to his sister, when he was checked by the sight of a long skinny mongrel like a hairy worm, that lay cowering and shivering beside a heap of ashes put down for the dust-cart such a dry hopeless heap that the famished little dog did not care to search it: some little warmth in it, I presume, had kept him near it.
What is the point, to my mind at least, is this though it doesn't sound magnificent, it hardly indeed sounds cleanly that whatever trade fails, whatever profession, thanks to the advance of civilisation, becomes obsolete, that of the man with the dust-cart, of the scavenger, of the sweeper, won't." Once more Richard smiled upon his companion charmingly, yet with something of self-mockery.
George had acted accordingly not only in the matter of the motor-bicycle, but in other matters. Now, on this June morning he had just begun to breast the slope rising from the hollow to Hyde Park Corner when a boy shot out from behind a huge, stationary dust-cart on the left and dashed unregarding towards him. George shouted.
After all, after all, dispersed, hidden, disorganised, undiscovered, unsuspected even by themselves, the samurai of Utopia are in this world, the motives that are developed and organised there stir dumbly here and stifle in ten thousand futile hearts.... I overtake the botanist, who got ahead at the crossing by the advantage of a dust-cart.
'That's a stupid affair with yonder fir tree, said the potsherds. You see, potsherds think everything is stupid. 'When one is in the dust-cart, they said, 'one ought not to give one's self airs and wear tinsel.
Fifty years ago, Carlyle, in whom the truth was always alive, but in whom it was then unperverted by suffering, by celebrity, and by despair, wrote in his study of Diderot: "Were it not reasonable to prophesy that this exceeding great multitude of novel-writers and such like must, in a new generation, gradually do one of two things: either retire into the nurseries, and work for children, minors, and semi-fatuous persons of both sexes, or else, what were far better, sweep their novel-fabric into the dust-cart, and betake themselves with such faculty as they have to understand and record what is true, of which surely there is, and will forever be, a whole infinitude unknown to us of infinite importance to us?
'That's a stupid affair with yonder fir tree, said the potsherds. You see, potsherds think everything is stupid. 'When one is in the dust-cart, they said, 'one ought not to give one's self airs and wear tinsel.
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