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Updated: June 16, 2025
The meat-man rarely proved a success, but the ash-cans were there, and if they did not afford a meat-supply, at least they were sure to produce potato-skins that could be used to allay the gripe of hunger for another day. One night the mother Cat smelt a wonderful smell that came from the East River at the end of the alley.
Here the romantic Irishman is much more right than the very rational one; and there is far more truth to life as it is in Lover's couplet "And envied the chicken That Peggy was pickin'." than in Eugene's solemn, æsthetic protest against the potato-skins and the lamp-oil. For dramatic purposes, G. B. S., even if he despises romance, ought to comprehend it.
Dirty they were then, though the weather was very dry, for oyster-shells, fish heads and bones, potato-skins, and cabbage-stalks littered the roads; but dirty was a word which does not give the faintest description of the almost impassable state in which I found them, when I waded through them ankle-deep in mud some months afterwards.
It was but little after sunrise, when Uncle Venner made his appearance, as aforesaid, impelling a wheelbarrow along the street. He was going his matutinal rounds to collect cabbage-leaves, turnip-tops, potato-skins, and the miscellaneous refuse of the dinner-pot, which the thrifty housewives of the neighborhood were accustomed to put aside, as fit only to feed a pig.
One Sunday morning, before the winter was quite gone, the sight of the frozen refuse melting in heaps, and particularly the loathsome edges of the rotting ice near the gutters, with the strata of waste-paper and straw litter, and egg-shells and orange peel, potato-skins and cigar-stumps, made him unhappy.
Marriage among the ragpickers of Paris is so rare an incident as to be virtually no part of their plan of life. The Paris ragpicker is seldom seen in the streets by day: his most profitable season is the night. And what meagre pickings are his at the best! what despicable bits of paper, of twine, of coal-refuse, of rejected food, bones, potato-skins, he gathers carefully in his hoard!
Jones on his way home" "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" "kiss" "Miss Blake, she's the girl with a foot and ankle" "Daly has never had wool on his sheep" "how could he" "what does he pay for the mountain" "four and tenpence a yard" "not a penny less" "all the cabbage-stalks and potato-skins" "with some bog stuff through it" "that's the thing to" "make soup, with a red herring in it instead of salt" "and when he proposed for my niece, ma'am, says he" "mix a strong tumbler, and I'll make a shake-down for you on the floor" "and may the Lord have mercy on your soul" "and now, down the middle and up again" "Captain Magan, my dear, he is the man" "to shave a pig properly" "it's not money I'm looking for, says he, the girl of my heart" "if she had not a wind-gall and two spavins" "I'd have given her the rights of the church, of coorse," said Father Roach, bringing up the rear of this ill-assorted jargon.
We were standing at the barred gate of the little enclosure, and quite close to Meg, who, however, did not choose to raise her head, but, continuing to shower her grain and potato-skins among her hens and chickens, said in a low tone 'Father baint in sight? Look jist round a bit and say if ye see him. But Dickon's dusky red costume was nowhere visible.
One Sunday morning, before the winter was quite gone, the sight of the frozen refuse melting in heaps, and particularly the loathsome edges of the rotting ice near the gutters, with the strata of waste-paper and straw litter, and egg-shells and orange peel, potato-skins and cigar-stumps, made him unhappy.
The prospect was not cheering; and, if the natives of Siam live in such confusion, it is high time they were attended to. The breakfast-table still stood as it was left, with slops of coffee on the cloth; bits of bread, egg-shells, and potato-skins lay about, and one lonely sausage was cast away in the middle of a large platter.
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