human
I suppose it is, but they brought it upon themselves, he said.
gpt
Nobody would mind their walking quietly through the Dene, even if they did leave their sandwich papers and their bottles behind them.
human
I have seen wire baskets provided in such places,
gpt
So have I. In fact, I tried it here, and put up a very civil notice pointing out what they were for. The Hoddam people, however, evidently considered it an unwarrantable interference with their sacred right to make as much mess of another person's property as they pleased, for soon after the baskets arrived we found that somebody had taken the trouble to collect them and deposit them in the lake.
human
A gardener could, however, pick up a good many papers in an afternoon.
gpt
It would naturally depend upon how hard he worked, and, as you may have noticed, undue activity is not a characteristic of anybody at the Grange. Still, it would be several years before he made a young holly from which the leading stem had been cut out grow again; besides which the proletariat apparently consider themselves entitled to dig up the primroses and daffodils by basketfuls with spades.