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There were not less than four rows of palisades, consisting of trunks of trees set in the earth and leaning outward; and there was a kind of gallery well supplied with stones and provided with wooden gutters for quenching fire. Something more than the hap-hazard methods of the Hurons was needed to capture this stronghold, and Champlain instructed them how to set about it.
We took our leave in silence: the house of Durrisdeer standing with dropping gutters and windows closed, like a place dedicate to melancholy.
We lived for the most part on the refuse she brought home at night on so much of her stock as had found no purchaser and we played about the gutters and alleys of the Market. So far as I remember we were neither very happy nor yet very miserable. We knew that we were brother and sister, and that Maman Trebuchet was not our real mother.
They have their own games and their times and seasons too! Yet no one can watch them as they play without experiencing feelings more or less pathetic. There is something incongruous about it that may cause a smile, but there is also something that will probably cause a tear. For their playgrounds are the gutters or the pavements.
High overhead some one throws open a window, and the rattle of the wood-work echoes down the empty street. On one of the roofs, a hookah is in full blast; and the men are talking softly as the pipe gutters. A little farther on, the noise of conversation is more distinct. A slit of light shows itself between the sliding shutters of a shop.
The utility of these gutters in drawing off the water was sufficiently obvious, but they were found to be very dangerous both to men and horses in the dark; accidents frequently occurred, and on one occasion a horse had his legs broken.
Snow lay piled along the sidewalks and in the gutters of Main Street black snow, sordid with the gathered grime of human endeavour that went on day and night in the bowels of the hills. Through the soiled snow walked miners, stumbling along silently and with blackened faces. In their bare hands they carried dinner pails.
"Of course, Aunt Zoe," answered Joe. "Besides, Sybil is coming, you know." So they sallied forth. It was a warm day; the snow had melted from the brick pavement, and the great icicles on the gutters and on the trees were running water in the mid-day sun. Joe thought a scene would be better to get over in the publicity of the street than in private.
Things were so much dirtier, so much, worse in every way than he remembered them. He hurried on, not noticing the attention he was attracting from the wretched little children in the gutters, though he scanned them all eagerly, hurriedly, with the, wild idea that Buck and the rest might be among them.
She was just a female arab an arab plus an accomplishment bright, quick and inconsequent as a sparrow, and reeking of the streets and gutters, which had been her nursery. "Yes," continued the good lady, "I must look after her." "Poor little atom! I suppose you will find out where the parents live, and send the school-board officer to them. That is the usual thing, is it not?
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