STRANGE LODGERS.
Tlio presence of animals not exact] regarded as domestic is a feature ( certain poor districts in Londot Fow.'» roost nightly in dozens of bet rooms in the back streets, and onl % other day a score of thoso miserab) tyloses that one. sees on barroiv destitute of the sipesf vestige < green stuff, and probably enduring th most prolonged agony, were discovert crawling about the floor, of a costei monger's attic amongst his progenj only slightly inferior in point of nun bars to the poor animals themselves, In somo of the cases where th accommodation for ponies and donkey; may fairly be called "stabling," th entrance is through the passage of i home densely inhabited, and the sail animals are led in and out daily in sucl a manner as to bo a nuisance to tin occupants, while the stables, being si closo to the windows of the room ant kept in anything but good order, are i constant danger to health. I have been assured by a very ok inhabitant of the coster's quarters, thai ho knew a donkey that went upstairf to the third floor every night to go tt bed; but old inhabitants are not to Ik relied upon, and I givo you this story r>' for what it is 'worth.—How the Pool Live, by G. R. Sims.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1598, 1 February 1884, Page 3
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221STRANGE LODGERS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1598, 1 February 1884, Page 3
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