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Updated: June 7, 2025
Even then he understood only when the gesture was supplemented by half-articulate shouts: "Behind you! Look BEHIND you!" The stung youth turned. There, directly behind him, he beheld an exclusive little procession consisting of two damsels in single file, the first soiled with house-moving, the second with apple sauce.
A house-moving firm from Pentonville, however, had engaged to perform the work. They had jacked up the house on screws, chained it securely to a log frame, and, setting a portable windlass at the top of the hill, operated this by horse power. An immense rope cable, thick as a man's arm, ran to a pulley under the house.
Who does not know how terrible are those preparations for house-moving; how infinite in number are the articles which must be packed, how inexpressibly uncomfortable is the period of packing, and how poor and tawdry is the aspect of one's belongings while they are thus in a state of dislocation?
But ever in one's ears is the rich rumble of trucks, recalling the voluptuous sound of the circus wagon on the village street. But always there are two great circus parades, one going up, one coming down. Lumbering trucks larger than city house-moving vans whirl by in dust clouds; long interminably long lines of these trucks creak, groan and rumble by.
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