the radishes which had been washed and put upon the table. There were potatoes also, and the realization came suddenly to him that these too had been taken from the ground. In happier days he had picked such things up from the gutters of South Water Street without repugnance, but they had had then behind them a history of cleanly barrels or crates.
He choked, and his feeling of unhappiness increased into the sense of an immense calamity.
