What chance does that give me to look for work ?
S pose I do get into the casual ward ? Keep me
in all day to-morrow, let me out mornin o next
day. What then ? The law sez I can t get in
another casual ward that night less n ten miles
distant. Have to hurry an walk to be there in
time that day. W T hat chance does that give me to
look for a job ? S pose I don t walk. S pose I look
for a job ? In no time there s night come, an no
bed. No sleep all night, nothin to eat, what shape
am I in in the mornin to look for work ? Got to
make up my sleep in the park somehow " (the vision
of Christ s Church, Spitalfields, was strong on me)
"an get something to eat. An there I am ! Old,
down, an no chance to get up."

"Used to be a toll-gate ere," said the Carter.
"Many s the time I ve paid my toll ere in my
cartin days."

"I ve ad three a penny rolls in two days," the
Carpenter announced, after a long pause in the
conversation.

"Two of them I ate yesterday, an the third
to-day," he concluded, after another long pause.

"I ain t ad anything to-day," said the Carter.
"An I m fagged out. My legs is hurtin me
something fearful."

"The roll you get in the spike is that ard you
can t eat it nicely with less n a pint of water," said

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