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310 PARK AND PLAYGROUND
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pupj walks ' but to the he must and ' have take the s out stingers a rat . t In aken one out hand . ' Thereupon he holds the the neck host
t side of the - t poeke ime rat between t he , and proceeds cage produces his to finger tear a pair and out of or thumb p break incers , whils off . " the With t he teeth these passes of , the talking the rat other ; away and into this all a
done , he , passes it over to the youth to take away and try his pup . with . " The last specimen I shall give is from a conversation carried on .
in a " milling * crib , " in the usual colloquial style of these places . A nawie " The conversation said he made was his just living then b turning hard work on work and , con did trasted not rel with on fig fig h ting ting .
or any taken thing else in . This sentiment earnest , w y hich b was the sneered villain , and that scoffed was y eating at by many bread ,
was up a very manner y execrable and cheese a . sen He timent frowned and went contemptuousl on to say that y on any the man man who who live had d b uttered y working so
hard was a hihl-colored , foolthat he htmoreoverto be sent to the infernal that * I used I to reg training work ions g , , y if said and indeed he when , that I t ; p t lace him t be was tt out oug er no on was t , the too I streets off good ? I he , for have _tvilUceep such a lad a me fellow home and .
himself am all right until , he is sent ge abroad ; then I must get another 1 ' " * "We liave looked long h on the dark side of the picture ,
let us now turn to something enoug brighter . It may hardly be thought by those not familiar with all the ways and means brought to bear
on the side of vice , that coffee-shops could be agents for either good or evil—they are , however , powerful auxiliaries on . one side or the
other . The greater number of those kept open all night , as is the case with shops in the neighbourhood of markets and large
public works , are the resort of bad characters , some of whom pay a very small sum for the shelter afforded them . These places ( of
which there are more than 6 , 000 in London ) not being under any supervisionin character with that of the persons by whom
they are kep , t vary ; but from the extensive influence they exercise it is most desirable that the night-houses _, as they are called , should be
suppressed ; that , where it is required , the shops should open earlin the morningand that all should be licensed and registered
To illustrate y our meaning , as to their beneficial tendency we give an instance mentioned in the Parliamentary Keport . The house in
question was kept by Mr . Pamphilon , in Sherrard street , Soho . Here a working man could have a good cup of coffee and a plate of
bread and butter for threepence-halfpenny , or for the same price a from plate the of good quarterl meat y , to with the the penny reading weekl of y all . the There periodical was an literature excellent ,
library , and the house was used by persons of every grade ; the only JBuilder * Since the the above subject extract of s Playgrounds were made a and very Recreations good article has The appeared writer ' s in later the
on . rather experience more of favorable some evening than * the amusements descriptions provided of Liverpool by the life poor ; the for themselves improvement , is increased viilance of the and
in the some establishment parts of , London in the nei is g ascribed hbourhood to described the , of some g penny panoramic police , exhicharacterbelieve that the worst of
bition Shadwell of a and harmless Wapping and would instructive at this time afford . evidence We corroborating that parts of the
Liverpool writer .
310 Park And Playground
310 PARK AND PLAYGROUND
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/22/
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