human
Write a detailed description of a melancholy scene outside a town yard with hounds.
assistant
Gaunt hounds root around in the rubbish that lines the street and the sewage ditches here. Their forlorn yelps echo off the closely-spaced housing blocks of the town's working poor. Built of humble mud bricks and flammable wood, they lean out across the narrow street. Across the narrow gap, standing on rickety landings or balconies, neighbors call to each other with the latest gossip, or quarrel or trade bawdy stories.