| Show INGLISH FOLKS AT THE SEASIDE visiting for pleasure they no 0 o tim in loins going to ailed A man charged with begging once declared that lie had not been in ili bed boil fo foi thirteen years lie took liis his rest in ili doorways and passages this is not ti record but many of the homeless home leaB cu cla could probably beat it certainly tin are thousands not only in england b bi all over the world to whom such a ln nry ury as a bed is unknown un fortun tc are obliged to lay their heads in ili the odi est places imaginable to prevent cecii being rudely awakened by the police A sad neer do well told the that this was wa s his principal thought io 0 o more days than lie could count chei should lie sleep that night and lie h hi j a theory that but for having object constantly in ili view as lie tramped over the monotonous pavements of london he lie must have lost his rea reabon koll 11 IL laughed himself in after days d ays w when le I 1 n 11 he thought of some of liis his experiences s at t dozing out even he however never slept in in it 11 stream which was what some ebirt thirty persons of both sexes did at buda besth a few years back the water which I 1 was war warm in flowed from a mill knill aud and the vagrants got into it and converted a number of stones into temporary pi pillows I 1 even people with homes could tell somo some strange stories on this head ot of course in some countries beds are unknown the japanese for example sleep on the floor muffled in ili a great wadded coat and with a block of av wood for a pillow but confining ourse ourselves lyes to england just talk to the dwellers in in the slums on oil this subject why going to bed there during the summer months is positively inviting torture many places swarm N with nith ith vermin and consequently those who livo live in ili them find it more comfortable to sleep anywhere rather than in the tile proper place even on the doorstep the manager of the isle islo of man mail hotel remarked a few months ago that ivas visitors never went to bed ilis his servants are often asked to provide breakfasts at 3 or 4 a in certainly the streets of douglass are pretty lively any timo time during the season A gentleman is fond of re relating latin that one night a select party Settled not far from front his bedroom window and created the tile most discordant din imaginable lie ile bore it with exemplary patience for about live five hours and then dressing himself lie went out and mildly exposto saying he wanted some sleep sleep roared one of the gang blowing a terrific blast on oil a toy trum trumpet pel then what did you come to the isle ISIO of man for T they I 1 ley say at blackpool brackpool Black pool too that it if you arrive at any hour of the day or n night ight you are just in time for something or other the story goes that carlye carlyone ono morning a dance was in fix progress on one of the piers when a shipwrecked sailor who had been arif drifting ting about on a spar and had fortu fortunately natel landed on the girders below crawled up tip the s steps the M C came forward they are never surprised at blackpool brackpool Black pool smiled bowed and said pleased to eco see you sir can cain I 1 find you a partner cassells journal |
