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Show Embers. Winter fuel is being gathered tip wherever It may be found this autumn. In Paris the coal carts which all day lumber along the Avenue de Versailles on the edge of the Seine are followed by a troop of women and children armed with sacks and baskets. The road Is worn, there are many holes, the jolts are frequent and bits of coal or coke come tumbling down. There Is a rush and eager hands thrust the black treasure into grimy baskets and gaping sacks. The gleaners organize themselves Into shifts; it's worth doing do-ing they get as much as a sackful-one sackful-one hundredweight in one quarter of an hour. Thus Paris is taking in its coal in good time. In London where all the streets, or nearly all, have been up this August and September there has beerr a harvest of half-worn tarred wood blocks little heaps of them along the side of the road. No lack of customers either, and in areas and back yards tidy little stores of blocks have been put by for use in the coming com-ing winter. |