It was when he had gathered the first train load of big, rollicky steers for market and was watching Jim Bleeker close the stockyard gate on the tail of the herd at Tower, the nearest shipping point, that the disagreeable element came in the person of Dill and the news he bore.

The sun peers o’er you wooded ridge and thro’ the forest dense, Its golden edge o’er the mountain ledge looks down on the stockyard fence, Looks down, looks down, looks down on the stockyard fence; And dark creeks rush thro’ the tangled brush, when their shuddering shadows throng Until they chime in the rude rough rhyme of the wild goburra’s song.

Through that window there came a balmy softness made up of Lake Michigan zephyr, and stockyards smell, and distant budding things.

In Chicago it was in the stockyards district that garbage was dumped for many years; garbage, the product of other wards, that the residents of those other wards insisted be removed from their back-doors.

Therefore he wrote to strangers on a purely business basisto amazing types lately emerged from the submerged, bulging with coal money, steel money, copper money, wheat money, stockyard moneytypes that galloped for Fifth Avenue to build town houses; that shook their long cars and frisked into the country and built "cottages."

The saddle was hung on the stockyard rail, And the poor old horse stood whisking his tail, For there never was seen such a regular screw As Wallabi Joe, of Bunnagaroo; Whilst the shearers all said, as they say, of course, That Wallabi Joe’s a fine lump of a horse; But the stockmen said, as they laughed aside, He’d barely do for a Sunday’s ride.

How much of the high infant death-rate among stockyards families has been due to the garbage exposed and decaying, so carefully brought there, from the fine residential districts?