There was a rusty lawnmower, a broken wicker laundry basket, a blue china saucer with a crack in the house, and a cane rocking chair with a hole in the seat.

屋子里有一台生了锈的割草机、一个破了的柳条编成的洗衣篮、一只蓝色的缺了口的陶瓷碟子，还有一把座位上破了个洞的藤制摇椅。

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The deluge has caused extensive damage to key crops - such as wheat, cotton and sugar cane - in a country where agriculture is an economic lynch-pin.

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Cane-growers spend Christmas in a panic, and the negroes don't have their party and holiday until after the New Year...

ECONOMIST: Cotton

Zegerman saw an ivory-handled cane in the far corner of the room.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian