field-cashier

Updated: May 11, 2025

Certain dark doorways also secreted a solitary sentry, and my own office boasted a corporal's guard presumably because the Field-Cashier had his rooms on the first floor. The sanitation was truly medieval; on either side of the cobbled streets noisome gutters formed an open sewer into which housewives emptied their slop-pails every morning, while mongrel dogs nosed among the garbage.

John Hartman Morgan - Leaves from a Field Note-Book