Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . AX EAST-END SAI,\ATIOX SERVICE. 198 LINIXG niiind tlicin: thereare slatternly womenand unwashed menin it, dockers anddecent artisans intheir \\ o r k i n gclothes, a sprinklingof dapper shopassistants, a soldieror two, bronzedseamen of man}nationalities ; withhere and there,peering grotesquel)-beside pallidCockney faces, black\isages of negroes,brown \isages oflascars, j^ellow vis-ages of wonderingChinamen, astrayfrom ships in increasing andmotlex crowd, but respectful a
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . AX EAST-END SAI,\ATIOX SERVICE. 198 LINIXG niiind tlicin: thereare slatternly womenand unwashed menin it, dockers anddecent artisans intheir \\ o r k i n gclothes, a sprinklingof dapper shopassistants, a soldieror two, bronzedseamen of man}nationalities ; withhere and there,peering grotesquel)-beside pallidCockney faces, black\isages of negroes,brown \isages oflascars, j^ellow vis-ages of wonderingChinamen, astrayfrom ships in increasing andmotlex crowd, but respectful and fairlyattentive, most of the male portion of itsucking ruminatively at pipes or cigarettes ;and even the aliens who can make nothingof the preaching can enjoy the music andthe singing, and translate their appreciationinto pennies when the cheery, pleasant-featured lassie passes persuasively amongthem with a tambourine for a collectionplate. scarcely ended \vhen AT ST. CHURCH. But we do not wait for all this. Indeed,before the moon on the sheet is flushedwith its first picture we have gone upEastcheap, through the Minories into Aldgat
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