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`` Why you see , farmer , it is there , it has always been there , and it 's so handy just to empty the slops and such-like dirt , '' said the dame ; `` to be sure it does smell bad sometimes , but that ca n't be helped . '' `` Hear me , dame , '' said Farmer Grey , `` I have a notion that God lets bad smells come out of such muck just to show us that if we breathe them they will do us harm ; the bad air which comes out of the muck mixes with the air we are always taking into our insides , and that makes us ill . You had one child die last summer of fever , and one is now ill . Now just do you get your good man to drain that off when he comes home , and tell him that he need not come to work till after breakfast to-morrow , or noon , if he has not done it . '' In another cottage a drain full of filth ran right under the floor . A cesspool was close to a fourth cottage . In several the floors were clean ; but all sorts of filth had dropped through and stayed there , and when it rained the water ran under the floor .