common sense if they changed the tune to " Feed
up, England!"

Not only is the worker poorly fed, but he is
filthily fed. I have stood outside a butchershop
and watched a horde of speculative housewives
turning over the trimmings and scraps and shreds

[{A COSTER S BARROW.}]

of beef and mutton dog-meat in the States. I
would not vouch for the clean fingers of these house
wives, no more than I would vouch for the cleanli
ness of the single rooms in which many of them
and their families lived; yet they raked, and pawed,
and scraped the mess about in their anxiety to get

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v?