JIM'S JOTTINGS.
["Do the poor make the slums, or the slums make the poor?"—Henry Lazarus, in "Landlordism."]
Is it the poor wot makes the Slums, or the Slums wot makes the poor?
Well, that's the question, Guv'nor, and I've 'eared it arsked afore,
And the arnser ain't so easy, if you wants to be O.K.
Don't suppose as I can settle it, but I'll have my little say.
My old friend Mister Lazarus, now, he ups and sez, sez he,