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Updated: May 14, 2025
And, apart from that, they would know quite well that were the captain of a British man-o'-war to go a-missing there would be such a stir among their rookeries that soon there would be no rookeries left.
To Hal's great relief Veltman kept out of his way. The man seemed dazed with misery, but did his work well enough. Rumors reached the office that he was striving to gain a refuge from his sufferings by giving all his leisure hours to work in the Rookeries district, under the direction of the Reverend Norman Hale.
On one side stretches a row of rookeries a maze of hanging clothes, fish-nets, balconies hooded by awnings and topped by nondescript chimneys of all sizes and patterns, with here and there a dab of vermilion and light red, the whole brilliant against a china-blue sky.
Coming from no man knew where in the illimitable Pacific, it was travelling north on its annual migration to the rookeries of Bering Sea. And north we travelled with it, ravaging and destroying, flinging the naked carcasses to the shark and salting down the skins so that they might later adorn the fair shoulders of the women of the cities. It was wanton slaughter, and all for woman's sake.
These hills, now overgrown with grass, show the soil matted with fine hair and fur where the seals shed their coats for hundreds of years. Now a few scattered rookeries are all that remain." "Do you suppose the seal herd will ever be as big again?" the boy asked. The agent shook his head. "I'm afraid not.
A murmur of inquiry rose. "Plague? What kind of plague?" "Who says so?" "Does he mean bubonic?" "No doctor that knows his business " "They say doctors are shut out of the Rookeries." "Order! Order!" Through the confusion cleaved the edged voice of E.M. Pierce, directed to the chairman: "Shut that off." A score took the cue. "Question! Question!" they cried.
But justice would seem to demand not only that the law should be enforced against all alike, but that the owner of the property should be made liable for its misuse as well as the unfortunate and ignorant occupants. The Chinese quarter in San Francisco consists, for the most part, of a lot of decayed rookeries which would put our own Five Points to the blush.
Several men stepped forward, and with hats and anything that would hold water they began to wet the old rookeries. But the fiery storm swooped steadily down on them, and their efforts were as futile as if they had tried to beat back the wind. Suddenly a mass of flame leaped upon the buildings, and in a moment they were all ablaze.
In response to a telephone call the city editor presented his lank form and bearded face at the door of the sanctum. "The Rookeries deaths?" he said. "Oh, malaria for convenience." "Malaria?" repeated Dr. Surtaine. "Why, there aren't any mosquitoes in that locality now." "So the health officer, Dr. Merritt, says. But the certificates keep coming in. He's pretty worried.
As for me I have laid hands on a canal the Rio Giuseppe all of it from the beginning of the red wall where the sailors land, along its crookednesses to the side entrance of the Public Garden, and so past the rookeries to the lagoon, where the tower of Castello is ready to topple into the sea.
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