They picked their way slowly along the bank of the brook, sometimes walking directly in the water where the dirt and stones became too hot for their feet.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
It was the fight against dirt.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
Here is this floor, very real, and dirt on it to be washed away,-from your boots, also very real, is not?
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine