long they make the homeless ones walk up and
down. They drive them out of doors and pas
sages, and lock them out of the parks. The evi
dent intention of all this is to deprive them of
sleep. Well and good, the powers have the power
to deprive them of sleep, or of anything else for
that matter; but why under the sun do they open
the gates of the parks at five o clock in the morn
ing and let the homeless ones go inside and sleep?
If it is their intention to deprive them of sleep, why
do they let them sleep after five in the morning?
And if it is not their intention to deprive them of
sleep, why don t they let them sleep earlier in the
night ?

In this connection, I will say that I came by
Green Park that same day, at one in the afternoon,
and that I counted scores of the ragged wretches
asleep in the grass. It was Sunday afternoon, the
sun was fitfully appearing, and the well-dressed
West Enders, with their wives and progeny, were
out by thousands, taking the air. It was not a
pleasant sight for them, those horrible, unkempt,
sleeping vagabonds; while the vagabonds them
selves, I know, would rather have done their sleep
ing the night before.

And so, dear soft people, should you ever visit
London Town, and see these men asleep on the
benches and in the grass, please do not think they

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