“COURT OF MIRACLES.” BEGGARS’ DUAL LIVES. LONDON, August 16. The correspondent of the “Daily ]\fai!” at Paris states that a modern “Court of Miracles” reminiscent of that described in Victor Hugo's “Nolro Dame do Paris” lias been discovered. Scores of beggars, blind, lame, deaf, dumb, and paralysed repaired nightly to the house of “The King of Egypt,” himself a professional “blind beggar,” and squandered the alms received in the day time in night-long revelry. The neighbours complained, and the poliae ejected the revellers, Y\ho t undaunted, resumed their revels with increasing joyonsness on an adjacent piece of waste ground, tire blind seeing the deaf bearing, the armless men playing instruments, while “palsied cripples” flnng down their crutches and fox-trotted merrily in the glow of a oamp fire. Police who interrupted them were driven hack with crutches and imitation arms and legs. On the following morning the police returned, but the beggars had disappeared to resume their fraudulent employments.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1921, Page 4
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166Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1921, Page 4
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