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Updated: May 25, 2025
That's what William T. Scott did, an' up in New York people think 'Billy' Scott is a fine man. I seen him at the Horse Show sitting in a box, bowing to everybody, with his wife sitting beside him, all hung out with pearls. An' that was only a month after I'd seen Rojas in that sewer where Scott put him." "Schnitzel," I laughed, "you certainly are a magnificent liar."
Even the Theresien Strasse has not long rejoiced in a "canal;" and the sewer was laid in that finest part of the Gabelsberger Strasse which runs past the Pinakothek and the Polytechnic School as late as the summer of 1873, while the upper end of the same street, which is notoriously unhealthy, is still unpaved and undrained.
His profits for the week might total one pound, a princely sum considering the scene and circumstances of his birth and upbringing in far Li-Chiang, where his father had reared a large family in a shed over a sewer, and had never possessed property or estate worth more than five shillings. Soon, if this money-making business continued to thrive, he would return thither.
He refused the only chair which blocked up the narrow passage where scarcely three customers could have stood in a row. Behind a glass partition one perceived the dim back shop, which served as kitchen and dining-room and bedchamber, and which received only a little air from a damp inner yard which suggested a sewer shaft.
The moment he entered, the sewer in the antechamber at the other end of the room had given a signal to one waiting at the head of the stair leading down to the hall, and his lordship was hardly seated, ere although the kitchen was at the corner of the pitched court diagonally opposite he bore the first dish into the room, followed by his assistants, laden each with another.
Then he led the way down the narrow stairway, lighting the passage with a candle. His only reply to King's guttural remark in the Graustark language was: "Don't speak, you fool! Not a word until we reach the river." Down the steps they went to the opening in the wall of the sewer.
What bubbles float down it! Everything that is fairly in the middle of the stream seems to sail with it, steadily and triumphantly and many a filthy fragment enters the sewer with a pomp and dignity not unlike the funeral obsequies of a great lord.
Want of cleanliness, then, in rooms and wards, which you have to guard against, may arise in three ways. Dirty air coming in from without, soiled by sewer emanations, the evaporation from dirty streets, smoke, bits of unburnt fuel, bits of straw, bits of horse dung.
He was meaner than a gold-field Chinaman, and sharper than a sewer rat: he wouldn't give his own father a feed, nor lend him a sprat unless some safe person backed the old man's I.O.U. We knew that we needn't expect any mercy from Stiffner; but something had to be done, so I said to Bill: "Something's got to be done, Bill! What do you think of it?"
Pope held that water should manifest, so to say, through Kew or Versailles fountains; but it was essentially to be from the Kitchen-tap or even from the sewer. Homer was more familiar with it thundering on the precipices, or lisping on the yellow sands of time-forgotten Mediterranean islands.
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