most of them, I took notice, got the soaking and
missed the bed. Now, to go through a stormy night
with wet clothes, and, in addition, to be ill-nourished
and not to have tasted meat for a week or a month,
is about as severe a hardship as a man can undergo.
Well-fed and well-clad, I have travelled all day with

[{ALONG LEICESTER SQUARE AT NIGHT.}]

the spirit thermometer down to seventy-four degrees
below zero; and though I suffered, it was a mere
nothing compared w r ith carrying the banner for a
night, ill-fed, ill-clad, and soaking wet.

The streets grew very quiet and lonely after the
theatre crowd had gone home. Only were to be
seen the ubiquitous policemen, flashing their dark

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