The Westminster Gazette headlines “The Intolerable Dullness of Country Life in Ireland.” And Irene wonders what they would call excitement.
[p 176]
]An advertisement of dolls mentions, superfluously, that “some may not last the day.” One does not expect them to.
The London Mendicity Society estimates that £100,000 is given away haphazard every year to street beggars, and that the average beggar probably earns more than the average working man. There is talk of the beggars forming a union. A beggars’ strike would be a fearsome thing.
I want to be a diplomat
And with the envoys stand,
A-wetting of my whistle in
A desiccated land.
[p 177]
]The London Busman Story.
I.—As George Meredith might have related it.
“Stop!” she signalled.