STRANGE LODGERS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3907, 28 January 1884, Page 4

STRANGE LODGERS.

Tho presence of animals not exactly regarded as domestic is a feature of certain poor districts of London. Fowls roost nightly in dozens of bedrooms in the back streets, and only the other day a score of thoso miserable tortoises that one sees on barrows destitute of the smallest vestige of green stuff and probably enduring the most prolonged agony, were discovered crawling about tho Iloor of a costerrnonger's attic amongst his progeny, only slightly inferior in point of numbers to tho poor animals themselves. In some of tho cases whore tho accommodation for ponies and donkeys may fairly bo called "stabling," the entrance is through the passage of a "home densely inhabited, nnd the animals are led in and out daily in fluch a manner as to bo a nuisance to tho occupants, while tho stables, being so close to the windows of the room and kept in anything but good order, are a constant danger ±o health. ~.,,.. . I have been assured by an old inhabitant of tho costcro' quarter* that he knew a ...uunitoy to tho third iloor every niglit to go to bed; but old inhabitants aro not to be relied upon, and I give you this story for 'what it is worth.—"How tho Poor Live," by G-. R. Sims.