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Rooms all around were filled with rations obtained from a neighboring grocery and meatmarket, taken with or without leave. On the main floor, on one side, in their office sat the weary commissioners; on the other, were Inspectors Carpenter, Dilks, and Leonard, fit, each one to be a general, while scattered around were police captains, detectives, and patrolmen.
Of having seen it, because their view included the whole triangle of three or four miles in circumference; of having heard it, because the day was one of some rejoicing and the noise was terrible; of having smelt it, because the olfactory nerve could not but be very disagreeably affected by the odors of the Youbou-Kamo square, where the meatmarket stands close to the palace of the ancient Somai kings.
Now there was Wilbur Watkins his father was president of the board of chosen freeholders Wilbur had a way of saying, 'Lorena's all right she weighs a hundred and seventy-eight pounds on the big scales down to the city meatmarket, and it's most of it heart a hundred and seventy-eight pounds and most all heart and she'd be a prize to anybody, but then, that was his way, Wilbur was a good deal of a take-on, and there was never anything between him and me.
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