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Updated: May 31, 2025
Hastily he kicked it aside and was about to pass to the pilot house when Harry called his attention to the paper. "Nice housekeeper you'd make," he taunted, "kick the dirt back under the couch and let the sweepers get it! Why don't you pick it up?" "Guess I will," replied Tom shamefacedly. "I was in a hurry." "What is it?" asked Harry. "Let me see it." "Sure, read it," Tom answered.
"How was that?" "Among the Paris street-sweepers." "What! you have been one " "Of the pioneers of the health force for a while, neighbor, and that was not my worst time either. The corps of sweepers is not so low as it is dirty, I can tell you!
Next in order of defilement to the sweepers, or, as some particularly righteous folk with inside reservations on the road to Heaven firmly insist, even beneath the sweepers, and possibly beneath the jackals come the English, looking boldly on whatever their eyes desire and tasting out of curiosity the fruit of more than one forbidden tree, but obsessed by an amazing if perverted sense of duty.
An officer in the guild of Sky Sweepers, who shoots through the air in the shape of a bow and arrow. "Come softly," said the Doctor, returning to the roadside; "I have found the Pewee's nest; it is quite new, and has no eggs in it as yet. This way up along this ledge of rocks, and you can almost look into it."
Eggs white, without any spots. A good Summer Citizen and a favorite everywhere; but for many reasons it is growing scarcer every year. The English Sparrow is one of its greatest enemies, and not only drives it from its nesting-boxes, but attacks the young birds. A member of the guild of Sky Sweepers. Male 2. The Barn Swallow Length six to seven inches.
If you ask for any information which I may deem it expedient to give to a person in your unfortunate position, well and good; but if you venture to argue with me, to express any opinion, to criticise anything I may be good enough to say regarding India, or to quote any passage relating to Asia from the works of Burke, Cowper, Bright, or Fawcett, I will hand you over to Major Henderson for strangulation, I will cause your body to be burnt by an Imperial Commission of sweepers, and I will mention your name in the Pioneer."
Of all the tunes played by the boatswain's pipe, that which calls the sweepers is the most frequently heard. When the order is given for dining on deck, the different messes into which the crew are divided occupy the spots immediately above their usual mess-places below, as far as the guns allow of their doing so.
The man rose and limped hurriedly away; but Uncle Billy was amazed and still more irritated to hear from his companion that this kind of menial occupation was often profitable, and that at some of the principal crossings the sweepers were already rich men. But a few days later brought a more notable event to Uncle Billy.
He represented the situation to his brothers, and Uncle Bendigo who had just retired, but who, belonging to the Naval Reserve, now joined up and soon took charge of some mine sweepers wrote very strongly as to what he thought was Michael's duty.
"Why, didn't you say that the bill had been sent in, through you, seven or eight times, and that the captain had paid it with a flowing sheet?" "Did you dare say that, sir?" interrogated the captain, very angrily. "Mr Phillott mistook me, sir?" replied the steward. "He was so busy damning the sweepers, that he did not hear me right.
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