dozen men, sleeping bolt upright or leaning against
one another in their sleep. In one place a family
group, a child asleep in its sleeping mother s arms,
and the husband (or male mate) clumsily mending
a dilapidated shoe. On another bench a woman
trimming the frayed strips of her, rags with a knife,

[{A LUNG OF LONDON.}]

and another woman, with thread and needle, sew
ing up rents. Adjoining, a man holding a sleeping
woman in his arms. Farther on, a man, his cloth
ing caked with gutter mud, asleep with head in the
lap of a woman, not more than twenty-five years old,
and also asleep.

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