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COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES
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common sense if they changed the tune to "Feed up, England!"
Not only is the worker poorly fed, but he is filthily fed. I have stood outside a butchershop and watched a horde of speculative housewives turning over the trimmings and scraps and shreds
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of beef and mutton—dog-meat in the States. I would not vouch for the clean fingers of these house wives, no more than I would vouch for the cleanliness of the single rooms in which many of them and their families lived; yet they raked, and pawed, and scraped the mess about in their anxiety to get
