A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.

My mind is going.

“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"

These substances are absorbed into the circulation, and produce the typical symptoms associated with sapraemia.