| Show LIFS IN LONDON A scene in ill the setin seten dials boughs on an the rampage e A fight with the police LONDON nov 18 she was tall slender and pretty she gazed at a kind looking young man with in describable love ilia his left arm supported her aint she a lass eaid said a woman in the crowd to turn her lover upside down in in company ham orous heyes heya this remark was lost on oil the lass who detill ti 11 continued to stare at her companion with a gaze of admiration scrutiny and anguish he was speaking to lier her ill blow your your brains out exclaimed clai nied an invisible squeaky voice izing boom then a bark the crowd laughed tho the alue squeezing eking voice the unmusical strains ana and the bark were issuing from an itinerant e punch and judy which was anchored between the grapes and the crown two large and popular saloons occupying two of the seven sides of the well known seven dials it was on saturday evening the place swarmed with people respectable s pec spec table a ble workmen and forbidding I 1 looking 0 in g ruffians steady women and ribald humines hut sies inebriated g guards ua r d 3 men and blue r regulars gul elbowed each other it was a startling carnival a show of all the most melancholy aspects of the loreet their good qualities and of their unbounded depravities suddenly there was wits a rush down came the little theatre toby and all the poor paraphernalia of the play to crown all the gas set fire to the curtains curtain ther ber was a cry of terror echoed by the desperate yell of the stage ma manner crushed under his burning house the roughs boughs however pur pursued sued their advantage the they I 1 r placed th themselves em behind each other and made a telling charge the anderest tn derest couples were forcibly severed A few innocents called for the police this satisfied the miscreants that the road was clear and that they could follow up their operations A piercing scream was heard beard the c companion 0 0 p anion of the strange lass had bad b been fl floored d and was being kic kicked k ed liko like a dead cur the poor girl stood unprotected among the wildest villains in the world a crew of thieves th reves ticket of leave men and of all sorts such as can only bo be encountered in those latitudes then c something om ething strange occurred she could have tried to run away or come to the rescue of b her e r friend but after her agon agonizing izing cry of despair on being torn fro from him she had remained nailed to the spot an unhealthy rickety vil lain seized her from behind but went no further ye drain cheap er said an unassuming citizen in arni artisans sans clothes yc ye let go or by eavens I 1 tho the mediator did not look much of a brugier bru bruit iier cr ilia his challenge was accepted by the scrofulous villain I 1 he lie was going to kis kim his h ia unfortunate victim who was defendi defending ug her jelfas awkwardly us as po possible ible when there was an iron grip on his hi hand there was hardly any the tile bully tried to free hii hi hand he ile might as well ell have tried to pull it from front the grip of a vice vicc there was the ground and thel the brawler fell to the pavement his hand h had ad been crushed as effectually as though a it wagon load and passed over it net next time said aid Go golieth linth ye are stretched eisent sent to penal servitude my lad may be ye will kerse me for I 1 doubt whether yc ye will be bable byard labor to display yer hac know of the gunners guv nors ners os vitality pita lity butin but in future ye will perhaps respect a poor blind girl alas it was true th the pretty innocent lass with curious 0 looks spar sparkling kli with poignant I 1 mant longing was as t totally blind sho could not aeo see whether she was loved and she thought nobody could seo sea how much she loyed hence her bar perplexing star when ewhen on the arm of flexing her ler friend her gallant protector had discovered her misfortune he ile was not however to be left in quiet possession on of bis triumph indeed seven even dials would soon lose loie its rig rights i tits to fame if such small skirmishes mi hes could settle its spirited corn coma the affray had drawn us from tho the grapes and the crown to little earl street which nearly ne arly rouls JJ r coffee bar another nsf 0 v f tho the dial where teetotalism tali taliam sill ui united t td to ti speculations pursued a ft bold campaign against the liquor trade by of ul tea coffee and ud cocoa at id ld per mug and of steak and kidney pudding at ad little earl street on n a saturday lay night li is one of the tile must bu buat ling lanea t that t imagination ciui can conceive conceive the rides of llie tile thoroughfare are occupied by an unbroken hue line of trucks loaded with cheap wares the foot path id is an all interminable row of small carrying currying on coni commerce merce at equally low figu figures the Is of the and traders cam pt wig for ar public favor the blinding alad whistling ga the un unsavory avo ami amm a issuing from froin dec decayed arvd tables ly malted fish second hand clothes seasoned food inexpensive boots and rancid cheeses t the 1 ie nn unmusical cries of the women their disheveled hair their abbreviated garment sand the barefooted and ragged children happier than kings cr create eatean an describable saturnalia at the top of the street on the left band side going toward the grapes there is a sinister site named Moul mouth court it has a narrow low and dark egress on little earl street ye bloody mutilator said an ugly man to the artisan art ifan 1 I tell ye yo ye wont dis disfigure figuro another gentleman in yer days dats this was the signal for fera a murderous assault on the man by two or three score of desperadoes in a minute they had run their prey in in to the dark alley for all that the C chase h a s a w was a 9 n not ot over the game was not a hare but a turkey cock circumstances were favorable to p pluck luck and steel and he lie had both the rhe place was narrow and thus he had bad only to deal with a minority of his amai assailant lants at a time when I 1 last saw him he be he was hitting like a semi remi god kick ia is brains out or drain im cant ye eaid said an adviser go it f my pigeons to but here the pigeons were interrupted the police who had been quelling e 1 another brush for seven bif vi dials gives ivea them little leisure were now turning their attention to the new battlefield battle field there were not many of them but they were stout and willing they ran through the first rank rail of the rioters but being pumped out by the effort they were surrounded by the miscreants who were not alow slow at reali realizing th the e superiority of their position like e boneman one man they fell on the blue coats A more desperate encounter could not have been witnessed the of their truncheons but tho the ruff ruffians ions picked up stones both parties let out with merciless es impulses there were only four policemen they would eventually have been cut to pieces by the natives if more men had not come to their rescue As it wan wah two of them were taken to the hospital and will probably be disabled for life the arrival odthe of the reserve of constables gave the victory to the peel ers e as but they came too late to be of much service to the valiant champion of the blind girl for when the co reached Moul mouth conn court he wag was found half murdered 0 on n the grou ground ild this is 13 a picture from life drawn from sev seven en dials a s planned nud built for the malt wealthiest hiest families of the city under charlca charles 11 II |
