From far down the hall came the staccato notes of a new term, the slam-bang of teachers flinging open cabinets, filling trash cans, stapling lists to bulletin boards, dragging desks into optimistic configurations.

There were also 173,387 private alleys cleaned, from which streets, alleys and inlets there were removed *178,495 cartloads of dirt. There were removed from buildings *639,833 cartloads of ashes and *30,472 cartloads of dry waste, and *252,238 cartloads of kitchen garbage, making a grand total of matter removed of *1,101,038 cartloads.

Yeah, I guess. I'm part Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth - on paper. Zermatt sucked his teeth, still dubious. I thought Cobb was Tyrus. Sounded too foreign for my mom or something. And there was some Scottish rebel named Tyler - maybe a cousin, so they compromised. It's kind of presidential, too, I guess. And my middle name is for - da-dum! - George Herman Ruth.

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