Blinking old men who are let out of workhouses by the hour, have a tendency to sit on bits of coping stone in these churchyards. . . . The more depressed class of beggars, too, bring hither broken meats, and munch — The City of the Absent" (p. 640) by Edward G. Dalziel. Wood engraving. From Dickens's The Uncommercial Traveller. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL.]
References
Dickens, Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller. Works, Volume 20. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, nd.
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