This is no fairy story and Doberman Pinscher shirt joke; the meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. There were the butt-ends of smoked meat, and the scraps of corned beef, and all the odds and ends of the waste of the plants, that would be dumped into old barrels in the cellar and left there.