A detection dog or sniffer dog is a dog that is trained to use its senses to detect substances such as explosives, illegal drugs, wildlife scat, currency, blood, and contraband electronics such as illicit mobile phones.  The sense most used by detection dogs is smell.  Hunting dogs that search for game, and search dogs that work to find missing humans are generally not considered detection dogs.  There is some overlap, as in the case of cadaver dogs, trained to search for human remains.  A police dog is essentially a detection dog that is used as a resource for police in specific scenarios such as conducting drug raids, finding missing criminals, and locating stashed currency.  Frequently, detection dogs are thought to be used for law enforcement purposes.  Experts say that dog-sniff evidence should not be used in the criminal justice system, pointing to wrongful convictions, human biases that skew animal behavior, and the lack of systematic research into what dogs detect or how they do it.  Although detection dogs are often used for law enforcement purposes, they are also used as a valuable research tool for wildlife biologists. In California, detection dogs are trained to discover quagga mussels on boats at public boat ramps because they are a harmful invasive species for the environment. Detection dogs also tend to be employed for the purposes of finding and collecting the feces of a diverse array of species, including caribou, black-footed ferret, killer whale, and Oregon spotted frog.  This process is known as wildlife scat detection.  Detection dogs are also seeing use in the medical industry, as studies have revealed that canines are able to detect specific odours associated with numerous medical conditions, such as cancer.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detection_dog  Thank you, Muse reader!   

A pantry is a room or cupboard where beverages, food, and sometimes dishes, household cleaning products, linens or provisions are stored within a home or office.  Food and beverage pantries serve in an ancillary capacity to the kitchen.  The word "pantry" derives from the same source as the Old French term paneterie; that is from pain, the French form of the Latin panis, "bread".  In a late medieval hall, there were separate rooms for the various service functions and food storage.  The pantry was where bread was kept and food preparation was done.  The head of the office who is responsible for this room is referred to as a pantler.  There were similar rooms for storage of bacon and other meats (larder), alcoholic beverages (buttery, known for the "butts", or barrels, stored there), and cooking (kitchen).  In the United States, pantries evolved from early Colonial American "butteries", built in a cold north corner of a colonial home (more commonly referred to and spelled as "butt'ry"), into a variety of pantries in self-sufficient farmsteads.  Butler's pantries, or China pantries, were built between the dining room and kitchen of a middle-class English or American home, especially in the latter part of the 19th into the early 20th centuries.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantry  The Muser grew up in a small home built in 1925 with a butler’s pantry between the dining room and kitchen. 

Small bouquets, either hand-held or worn on clothing, date back to medieval times. This became a widespread practice in the 15th century as plague spread throughout England and Europe.  These fragrant flower bundles were called nosegays.  Translated, the Middle English word for nose still means nose, and the word “gay” meant ornament.  Nosegays were held close to the nose, or worn as a brooch, a hair ornament, or tied around the waist.  Both men and women wore or carried certain flowers and herbs to ward off disease.  During the Victorian era tussie-mussies were carried close to the nose to ward off the stench in the streets and the plague and were composed primarily of scented herbs such as rosemary, thyme, and rue.  The small tapered metal vase that holds small bouquets is now sometimes called a tussie-mussie, as are the fragrant flowers in the vase.  Sudre Havenga https://nationalmuseumpublications.co.za/the-victorian-tussie-mussie-from-warding-off-the-plague-to-declaring-your-undying-love/ 

Tussie Mussie is an 18-card game that was inspired by the Victorian language of flowers:  a fad that saw people publishing entire dictionaries about what it means to give different flowers to your friends and loved ones.  https://www.elizhargrave.com/games/tussie-mussie 

Achillea millefolium, commonly known as yarrow or common yarrow, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.  Other common names include old man's pepper, devil's nettle, sanguinary, milfoil, soldier's woundwort, and thousand seal.  The plant is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Asia, Europe, and North America.  It has been introduced as a feed for livestock in New Zealand and Australia.  The genus name Achillea is derived from mythical Greek character Achilles, who reportedly carried it with his army to treat battle wounds.  The specific epithet millefolium as well as the common names milfoil and thousand leaf come from the featherlike leaves which are minutely divided.  The English name yarrow comes from its Saxon (Old English) name gearwe, which is related to both the Dutch word gerw (alternately yerw) and the Old High German word garawa.  In the eastern counties it may be called yarroway.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achillea_millefolium  

easy street noun (originally US, idiomatic, informal) Chiefly preceded by on: a carefree lifestyle or situation, especially as resulting from being wealthy  The musical Annie, which features the song “Easy Street” opened on Broadway, April 21, in 1977.  Wiktionary 

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