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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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Nay,
in
the
boat
at
the
minute
of
which
I
have
been
speaking,
silent
and
neglected,
sat
a
fellow-passenger,
who
was
a
greater
adept
at
removing
nuisances
than
the
whole
Board
of
Health
put
together;
and
who
had
done
his
work,
too,
with
a
cheapness
unparalleled;
for
all
his
good
deeds
had
not
as
yet
cost
the
State
one
penny.
True,
he
lived
by
his
business;
so
do
other
inspectors
of
nuisances:
but
Nature,
instead
of
paying
Maia
Squinado,
Esquire,
some
five
hundred
pounds
sterling
per
annum
for
his
labour,
had
contrived,
with
a
sublime
simplicity
of
economy
which
Mr.
Hume
might
have
envied
and
admired
afar
off,
to
make
him
do
his
work
gratis,
by
giving
him
the
nuisances
as
his
perquisites,
and
teaching
him
how
to
eat
them.
Certainly
(without
going
the
length
of
the
Caribs,
who
upheld
cannibalism
because,
they
said,
it
made
war
cheap,
and
precluded
entirely
the
need
of
a
commissariat),
this
cardinal
virtue
of
cheapness
ought
to
make
Squinado
an
interesting
object
in
the
eyes
of
the
present
generation;
especially
as
he
was
at
that
moment
a
true
sanitary
martyr,
having,
like
many
of
his
human
fellow-workers,
got
into
a
fearful
scrape
by
meddling
with
those
existing
interests,
and
“vested
rights
which
are
but
vested
wrongs,”
which
have
proved
fatal
already
to
more
than
one
Board
of
Health.
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