| Show amusements tf PAUPERS flow the i en ot rn anelli elli lct their entertainment we have far better amusements in the workhouse than most people think said an old inmate to conr of our the other day 1 I dont mean such things as cards and the like but real first class professional affairs but you have to pay for cm oh yes now theres an old fellow in my house he was an actor and can remember every lino of shakespeare leoften make up an ounce of tobacco among us and hell give us whole act of hamlet lie Is not above taking half an for alio recital of a scene or two only last week he was in grand form twenty of ul managed to subscribe a matter of fifteen pence and wo sat during the whole afternoon listening to a complete recital of the merchant of venice 1 I know of an old crimean hero he goes on another tack he has a wonderful appetite for a bit of next door neighbors meat or pudding or a portion of soup at dinner he will take him in a corner and tell him stories of the war for half an hour he always winds up with a capital rendering of the charge of the light brigade la which a brother of his was killed 1 I have seen thirty lattio screws of tobacco put in an old sailors cap making altogether perhaps an ounce and a half or so in return for which he will spin sea yams by the mile he never tells the bame yarn twice we call him serpent sam and I 1 dont know a man who better d serves tho title hes a the women oh yes they are not tor gotten I 1 can tell you this then tire couple of old ladies in our house one has been an operatic chorus singer she kaow a score of operas and for a trifle will sin you anything you like both in italian and english bless you her voice liall bad and I 1 should say bhe once biad U verj good one but give me the old lady alio dance she says she was principal dancer shed sixty if a day but ive been her dunce u highland flaur to perfection I 1 remember once a con pie of us old fellows laid docu out two sticks on tin pavement of the exercise ground believe me sir she set all our feet going with her sword dance london tit bits |
