A STRANGER'S CHANCE.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3452, 17 January 1880, Page 1

A STRANGER'S CHANCE.

Death was busy on Baker street the other morning. Men were seen to enter a certain house or pass around to the rear, and men's heads could be seen over a high board fence hiding the back jard from public view. One man ■tood at the gate, looking up aDd down the street, as if expecting the undertaker, and as men passed in, he was heard to say :— " Died about au hour ago, and the family feel awful about it." / He was looking very sad when 'a stranger came across tbe street, peered •rround the corner of the house, and confidentially inquired:— " Went off rather sudden,, did he ? " " Yes, rather sudden," was tbe reply. "These sudden deaths are, .tuff, and that's a fact. Leaves a family Sometimes without a loaf of bread in the house. I bad an uncle drop off just that way, and the only provisions in the house were a jar of pickles and a pound of candles. Was the late deceased prepared, do you think?" r \ " Yes, as much as one in his station of life could be," answered the. man at. the gate. " Wasn't regular in his church attendance, then ? " Continued in Fourth Page,