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When Dirk's habitation was thoroughly repaired, it was the wonder and admiration of all the Culm people. "It be like what it was when I was a gal, an' all the housen was new," said one old fish-wife, who had tottered in with the others. "Ay, mother," said Dirk, "an' it be time we had new habits to go with the new housen, eh?"
Then there wuz a display of every kind of horticultural machinery and implements, glass housen, aquariums, ferneries, all sorts of ornaments for gardens. All kinds of small fruits and how to grow 'em, everything relating to the culture of vines, vineyards, wine cellars.
His face was teeming with a wild and fierce meaning, and he indulged in a low but triumphant laugh. When this exhibition of satisfaction was over, he consented to reply. "Certain," he said. "We went on a path, in the night, against the lying Yengeese, and no burning of the woods ever scorched the 'arth as we blackened their fields! All their proud housen were turned into piles of coals."
One thing struck me in all the housen, and made me think that though the Cliff Dwellers wuz older than Abraham or Moses, yet if I could see some of them female Cliffers I could neighbor with 'em like sisters. They did love closets so well, and that made 'em so congenial to me. I never had half closets enough, and I don't believe any woman did if she would tell the truth.
With crazy, slantin' old housen on either side forms of misery filling the narrow, filthy street, wearing the semblance of manhood and womanhood. And worst of all, embruted, and haggard, and aged childhood. Filth of all sorts cumbering the broken old walks, and hoverin' over all a dretful sicknin' odor, full of disease and death.
"Anarchy foreffer!" "Ve vill shtrike, mine prudders," continued the little round orator, growing very ardent and red in the face. "Ve vill no vait long. Ve vill kill! Ve vill burn! Ve vill der togs uf var loose und ride to driumph in der shariot uf fire. Ve vill deir housen pull down deir hets upoud, und der street will run mit der foul plood uf der gabitalist!"
Solomon's Temple in Bible times never had a house built round it. And he wuzn't a-goin' to encourage folks to go on and build meetin'-housen inside of other housen. "Why," sez he, "if that idee is encouraged, they will be for buildin' a house round the Jonesville meetin'-house, and we will have to pay to go in." Sez he, "Less show our colors for the right, Samantha."
The high walls of the prison that used to loom up so hugely and threatingly in front of the bare old tenement housen the harsh glare of them walls seem further away, hidden from them by the gracious green of the blossoming trees. The sunshine lays between them and its rough walls they follow the glint of the sunbeams up into the Heavens.
And in the cause of duty I kep on a-tacklin' him about them housen of hisen, and advisin' him to tear 'em down, and build wholesome ones, and in the place of the worst ones, to help make some little open breathin' places for the poor creeters down there, with a green tree now and then.
Then the ideal figger of the Japanese wimmen is narrer shoulders and big waist. And though I hailed the big waist joyfully, I drawed the line at the narrer shoulders. They have long poles about their housen, with holes bored in 'em, through which the wind blows with a mournful sort of a voice, and they think that that noise skairs away evil sperits.
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