Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . WITH OLD WHEELS PICKABACK WRESTLING. TOPS. SOME LONDON STREET AMISEMENTS. By EDWIN STILTS. IT is Saturday andall the streets inthis mixed neigh-bourhood are a riotof children. out ? says oneboy to another; andit seems a superfluousquestion. Translated,however, it means : Are \-ou on some\exatious errand for}-our mother? or areyou at libert} to join in any fun that maycrop up ? The boy replies that he is out,and joins the noisy, moving crowd. Men must work and women must weep^says t
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . WITH OLD WHEELS PICKABACK WRESTLING. TOPS. SOME LONDON STREET AMISEMENTS. By EDWIN STILTS. IT is Saturday andall the streets inthis mixed neigh-bourhood are a riotof children. out ? says oneboy to another; andit seems a superfluousquestion. Translated,however, it means : Are \-ou on some\exatious errand for}-our mother? or areyou at libert} to join in any fun that maycrop up ? The boy replies that he is out,and joins the noisy, moving crowd. Men must work and women must weep^says the song ; it might be added that childrenmust play. Even the ill-used, half-starvedchild of the London slums can find sur-cease from the horrors of its lot in a worldof make-believe. Rag dolls and paperballs serve the purpose just as well as themore elaborate toys of richer children ;and perhaps there is compensation for thelack of such luxuries in an inevitablequickening of the imagination. Of coursethere are things to be enjoyed in thestreets of London that are, comparativelyspeaking, quite aristocratic of their kindand out of the reach of the very refer to such subtle
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