Show the beggars of lisbon begging and all the forms incident to it Is a perfect pest in lisbon the nasals casals of 0 the portuguese are well adapted for the lamentations walled wailed forth in tones to melt a heart of stone mendicancy is a profession over which these beggars are master and no tragedian has studied closer closer ills his part than eave have these wretches 1 tle the part they depict little children and some of them beautiful are placed about the different places of amusement by colne old crone who has hired them and for a mere pittance the little actress wails forth her cry for a penny the day over the child carries her mites to the brute who is her master after nightfall women with their features covered will quietly approach you front from the shadow of some tree or doore doorway ay and solicit alms they claim to be of respectable birth and station driven by extenuating circumstances to ask t assistance of strangers yet too modest or proud to expose their features lisbon cor san francisco chronicle |