Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . empt\ing from time to time fill again assteadily, and a ring of economical enthusiastsbarnacle the outer railings of the enclosurefrom the opening of the programme to theclose. The garden seats strewn about thegrass are so liberally patronised that thel\-nx-eved collector has never done collect-ing his pennies ; and o\er grass andgravelled pathway, round and round the* bandstand, a dense, far-stretching crowdrevolves and eddies, and occasional!)- bubblesand roars into such a tumult that itdrowns a
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . empt\ing from time to time fill again assteadily, and a ring of economical enthusiastsbarnacle the outer railings of the enclosurefrom the opening of the programme to theclose. The garden seats strewn about thegrass are so liberally patronised that thel\-nx-eved collector has never done collect-ing his pennies ; and o\er grass andgravelled pathway, round and round the* bandstand, a dense, far-stretching crowdrevolves and eddies, and occasional!)- bubblesand roars into such a tumult that itdrowns all sound of the music from thosewho are struggling in its Out beynnd the radius of this circlingmass is a larger, less concentrated, thningsitting, and standing, and pacing to and fro :coquettish housemaids with their chosensoldiers ; sedate parents with their children ;shopmen and shopgirls ; young City clerksof both . ; office bo\\s in gorgeous rai-ment consorting together as in despair atfinding themselves among the vulgar;persons of fairl_\- high position, of fairly lowposition, and no position at all; and with somuch talking and giggling and whisperingand flirting to be transacted between themthat some of them hardl_\- know when themusic is going and when it is stopped. Since the first tune was pla\-ed thewarmth of sunset has withered from thesky, the air has darkened, the stars ha\ebecome visible, and gas and electric lightshave been -set twinkling and glowing inevery direction across the Park. The out-lines of the bandstand have been graduallyobscured by the darkness till the red-coated bandsmen sitting in it under the
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