THE VAGRANT ACT.
Down at the east end of the City Market, yesterday morning, somebody threw the, skin of a peach on the flagstones just three seconds before a citizen's foot was planted on the spot. He keeled to starboard, rolled back to port, and then settled away and went down in about seven fathoms ortmacellaneous water. As ho was getting up, a man who had been eating a raw turnip stepped out and asked : " Arc you a vagrant 2." "Vagrant! Why; sir, I'll knock your infernal nose off!" shouted the victim. " Can't help that," continued the turnipeater. " I saw you when you started to fall, you were clawing this way and that. You could have been convicted of vagrancy then." " What's" that ? You lie. sir, and " " And I can't help that. You had no visible means of support, and that's vagrancy, or I'm a Hessian." The victim of the fall kept his mouth open for half a minute, wanting to say something, but his jaw finally closed, and he backed out of the crowd.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2807, 12 February 1878, Page 3
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175THE VAGRANT ACT. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2807, 12 February 1878, Page 3
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