HOW SOME PEOPLE LIVE

Manawatu Herald, 5 February 1889, Page 2

HOW SOME PEOPLE LIVE

' ''" ' Wbapfbb Wbr^m • (Pall Mall Budget); I got from Born Drunk a brief diary of his doings for the Week before my last intetvl^itr 'trttk him. He'livea'in a comnion-lcKlgjjig bouse i (as. do two-thirds of his' jMnjdteuiont d Messrß. and Co.), aiff pays 6d a night rent. " Wei, Monday I . turned up in good time, for I had.no work out on Saturday, and I wanted 'to pull the string' if X conlaVj I was hard at it till near five.^clpok, ana drew. 2s id., andgQs7s wCI paid 7d borrowed fromdlffer^phapfl. gave my landlord a < bob,* ' spent id in tobacco and 4d in ' grab,' and startedqnmy journey atwen o'clock. I kept at. it till twelve, and * wired in ' again soon after five in the morning, and finished a little after eight o'clock. Tuesday wasn't a very busy day, but I put io five hundred, and with* my seven? fifty, night work I had 8s 9d to draw. . .1 fetched home, with mytwork about eight, after having 4 few f halfpints and something to eat,:, 4 was just nicely starting. on . the^wrjußpers when two blokes began jausj^aliing, and raised such a shindy ;£ Jiad to ;iA^vWd instead of wprfcng I we,nij out acu got tight*: .. moping 1 tgsk in about jibre^uudre^anO, gp^A holiday. , thurjfjday I cjeara4 ,-JM&. and h»4,^v, ?( pttt. betjan^made 2a jpjk, l^fe^ got m f»^t. ,3aturaay.f» 'mSk*s' a shilling and ienpenw ,whe*ewith to pav^for food and lodging^ to say ho^%§f* JriaE . or tobacco, Montoy afternoon. Yojisee wrapperwri&qg isri^t up to mtfeh &|r %iiving. Thanlßt A • hapbrthandapennorth." Born Drunk is perhaps one of #»& moatrookleis.ofhia classy The wsek teeorded'fwag one when' work was abundant,'and a thrifty scribe who "slogged at it sixteen hours ont of the twenty -iojir as long as he had the . chance," tol4 me that he averaged A :4s a day. ! Bat there are weeks when the hungry penman may average as little as ed^t diem— to supply food and lod >iiig; n^t to mention laundry and other luxuries. According $p the statements .of several* of^iese men with whbnX :Lspoke, men : who hadfollowea;tibtf>a»h'ng for ytfaw, their earnings;' taking- brie week with another throughout tne r twelvemonth, would average about 1 r ona shilling a day; The great hardship in their way of living, which- the scrlbesuuanimously dwelt on, Wa* the uncertainty of work, and the 1 ' Worry and' loss of time in watching 1 fdr its advent. Incredible as W may appear, there is keen competition for the employment, and in 4 no' occupation does Labon* '£foucb, *nj>re pfteously at thef eet bf Capital, or Capital b 6 conteinptoualy suppliant. To sndw the. copßi4eration a scribe receives frpm-jbis I was told of an old ha&s ,i^o took home some work' one eyexang, and d^fi^the same night. ; Next miarning hi3ftemvaftes' beard the news, -aM 'one informed -the gentlpma* ■ who' < iftsties and receives back tbe' work that old T-r^was dead. " Bead r fli^. old fool 5 ! Did htfdo his w«ifc work ; had act beei^d6ne,{and a^ messenger, was sen* ffßr.^ i hat no thought was 1 given fa ihi w*i»-out scribe, who so raexpeetedtfnftigaped I'his task. '^- (J r^ f ":■'■ W^wftttoned). ... „ r l. r .~ : -&*k.