Street,
they kept
nuts and
raisins,
or salt
and meal
and other
groceries.
Some have
such a
vast
appetite
for the
former
commodity,
that is,
the news,
and such
sound
digestive
organs,
that they
can sit
forever in
public
avenues
without
stirring,
and let it
simmer
[simmer〈v.〉沸腾，即将爆发]
and
whisper
through
them like
the
Etesian
winds, or
as if
inhaling
ether, it
only
producing
numbness
and
insensibility
to pain –
otherwise
it would
often be
