slaughtering-pens

Updated: June 8, 2025

There was only one kind of business that came to the General this kind; and one instinctively compared him to that decoy sheep at the stock-yards that had been trained to go forth into nervous, frightened flocks of its fellow-sheep, balking at being driven into the slaughtering-pens, and lead them peacefully into the shambles, knowing enough always to make his own way quietly to the rear during the onward progress and thus escape.

Theodore Dreiser - The Titan