Iglesia and Jouvencel fell at Meaux, occupied by the Prussians; their despatches, however, were saved in a dung cart.
A full dung cart, swarming with flies and scarcely narrower than the alleyway, was just rumbling by.
"And of less worth than the dry dirt that spills from the wheels of the dung cart," his colleague with the musket added.
The dung carts had not gone out this morning, and the odor was strong.
So "Mortals" isn't another "Mating" - no windmills, solar panels, dung carts or boomslangs.
He encountered people who were all busy - ploughmen, a shepherd, roadmenders, drivers with dung carts.
Drains overflowed into gutters, and there had obviously been no crossing sweepers or dung carts near for weeks.
The crowds had impeded the dung carts and the piles of rubbish and refuse were everywhere, the flies rising in thick black swarms.
Others channeled to haul water, the buckets gripped with Air, or to push dung carts from the barn, or stack firewood.
The white coal will be chased by the black one, Made prisoner led to the dung cart, Moor Camel on twisted feet, Then the younger one will blind the hobby falcon.