Crossword-Solution: PUSHCARTS 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Then he wrote on “Street Lending-Libraries.” His idea was to have little pushcarts full of books drawn about the streets.

Life, Articulate, shrill, Screaming in provocative assertion, Or out of the black and clotted gutters, Piping in silvery thin Sweet staccato Of children's laughter, Or clinging over the pushcarts Like a litter of tiny bells Or the jingle of silver coins, Perpetually changing hands, Or like the Jordan somberly Swirling in tumultuous uncharted tides, Surface-calm.

They made up the orders, loaded them into their little pushcarts, charged themselves up with the separate amounts in a small book, and at the end of each day's sales each child settled with the manager and was paid his commission (twenty per cent of the receipts) in cash.

Already, half an hour ago Alcibiades and Yaxis had departed with their pushcarts, one to the north and one to the south, calling antiphonally as they went, in clear, high voices that came fainter and fainter to Achilles among his fruit.

When waiting milk-cans were thrown into cellars, when the wheels of momentarily deserted wagons were loosened, when pushcarts disappeared, when children bent on shopping were waylaid and robbed, when cats were tortured, horses' manes clipped, windows broken, shop-keepers enraged, babies frightened, and pit-falls set upon the stairs, the cry was always, "Them Yonowsky devils." Leah could do nothing with them.