Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 49

Next he crept on his hands and knees through an overfilled butcher's shop; there was meat, nothing but meat, wherever he stepped; this was the heart of a rich, respectable man, whose name is doubtless in the directory.

Who acts: rain, meat, this, name · What happens: creep, overfill, be, step · To what, where: hands, heart, directory

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