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Updated: May 15, 2025
Inquiring of an old man if there were many snakes about, he said no; the soil was too poor for them; but in some places down in the vale he had dug up a gallon of snakes' eggs in the 'maxen. The word was noticeable as a survival of the old English 'mixen' for manure heap.
We must sling the apple-tree in the orchet if there's time. We can't put any more under the church lumber than I have sent on there, and my mixen hev already more in en than is safe. 'Very well, she said. 'Be quick about it that's all. What can I do? 'Nothing at all, please. Ah, it is the minister! you two that can't do anything had better get indoors and not be zeed.
Rural mechanics too idle to mechanize, rural servants too rebellious to serve, drifted or were forced into Mixen Lane. The lane and its surrounding thicket of thatched cottages stretched out like a spit into the moist and misty lowland. Much that was sad, much that was low, some things that were baneful, could be seen in Mixen Lane. Even slaughter had not been altogether unknown here.
The ideas diffused by the reading of Lucetta's letters at Peter's Finger had condensed into a scandal, which was spreading like a miasmatic fog through Mixen Lane, and thence up the back streets of Casterbridge.
"That means matrimony," said Temperance Miller, following them out of sight with her eyes. "I reckon that's the size o't," said Coggan, working along without looking up. "Well, better wed over the mixen than over the moor," said Laban Tall, turning his sheep.
Henchard had frequently met this man about the streets, observed that his clothing spoke of neediness, heard that he lived in Mixen Lane a back slum of the town, the pis aller of Casterbridge domiciliation itself almost a proof that a man had reached a stage when he would not stick at trifles.
A pedestrian would be seen abstractedly passing along Mixen Lane; and then, in a moment, he would vanish, causing the gazer to blink like Ashton at the disappearance of Ravenswood. That abstracted pedestrian had edged into the slit by the adroit fillip of his person sideways; from the slit he edged into the tavern by a similar exercise of skill.
I sat up again, but my strength was all spent, and no time left to recover it, and though she rose at our gate like a bird, I tumbled off into the mixen. 'Well done, lad, Mr. 'I should have stuck on much longer, sir, if her sides had not been wet. She was so slippery 'Boy, thou art right. She hath given many the slip. Ha, ha! Vex not, Jack, that I laugh at thee.
To emphasize its full force it may be allowable to divide the phrases as follows: "I never had dreamed of such delicate motion, Fluent, and graceful, and ambient, Soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, But swift as the summer lightning. I sat up again, but my strength was all spent, And no time left to recover it, And though she rose at our gate like a bird, I tumbled off into the mixen."
I sat up again, but my strength was all spent, and no time left to recover it, and though she rose at our gate like a bird, I tumbled off into the mixen. "Well done, lad," Mr. "I should have stuck on much longer, sir, if her sides had not been wet. She was so slippery " "Boy, thou art right. She hath given many the slip. Ha, ha! Vex not, Jack, that I laugh at thee.
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