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PARK AND PLAYGROUND. 309
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although Liverpool only is described , and the scenes and forms of vice going may on in vary Liverpool slightly two with years the ago locality , is at , the yet what present is described time nourishes no less as
rife and in the London harmless , and recreations , without provide doubt , d wherever are disproportionate drinking to the number of the le
peop . established The different in 1844 chap , for ters the include purpose , —public of providing concerts 1 rational , of which recreation those
for is ceptions but the peop a to variation the le at general the of low statement the rate means of three , that of -pence each practical entertainment each education , are the described in only vice ex- ;
gambling exhibition stalls of the ; unrestrained Dutch auctions effects ; scientific of nitrous experiments oxide gas , a ; fri evening ghtful
received lounges ; b free y payment concert room for drink s , free , , and because by other the profits more made culpable are
means ; poses plastiq ues indescribably bad ; the casino , in Liverrooms pool , as , onl elsewhere y differing , a scho in the ol of amount immorality of mischief ; a variety emanating of dancing from
them ; and various establishments at which sparring , dog-fighting , ratting Here , betting is a muc , h & c modified , & c , are descri carried ption on of . the laughing-gas
experiments _, carried on , says the authorthe ends " In to a form wooden sort shed of , gallery the filth , The of the atmosp ground here being was heaped foul up and at
a . very , crammed into this . abominable The notice , ' Take dirty care hole of , your at least pocke one ts , ' was hundred suspended persons from were the
vi various roof ty . and There stages filth wer ; of young intoxic e crowded , men ation , together from ; old seven men boys , teen who of seemed to all twent ages to , y in - like to five all consi the s years tages fun st , of of and age depra girls , in - ,
y oung carters women , ters and sail mothers -makers . The and youn shi g - men appeared tersand their language principall and y behaviour , were por bad , in the extreme , . * p * carpen * A t strong , rope and ran along the the
pa ou whenever tients ter side were -wall the tethered , and le to t ook the mean t rope he s of , the a they bel reason t began round for this to fig b eing ht . ' y , , it The was a peop said ring le , , that had
'peopgas rendered guinary f themselves aces , polluting almost the ho alread arse with y poison cursing -laden * each atmosp other here ' s eyes wi and th t san heir - had lecture science
horrid swore laceand impreca comprehensivel to kick tions the ; and y others , threatening the operator into one to , who still turn hotter some promised . of A the young a students fellow on out h of aving the ,
a p For t last a , moment been secured or two the he experiments appeared stup "began iiied , , and and the shu patient t his t eyes t inhaled th . In the clenched a second oxide .
or two after he stared wildly around him , and then with seeeand fists struck and tried out to and free kicked himself with sw maniacal ore at the fury _audience . * * an * d yelled He tugged fiendishl at the y .
rope There was neither mirth nor , method in this madness , . It was a terrible sj ) ectacle for men to witness , and ivhat must it have been become for the poor xhausted
chilw dren ith his by whom efforts th he e- wretch favored was the surrounde company d with . Having a disgusting " song e , which was received with , general satisfaction . "
Here is a picture of the noble pursuit of ratting : —
" A youth has just entered to purchase some rats , as he * wants to try his
Park And Playground. 309
PARK AND PLAYGROUND . 309
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 309, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/21/
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