... past an old man might have been seen cnrrying an old bag on his shoulders, scraping up odds and ends fromn the gutter and garbage froin the streets. This man's home Nvasiu a London suburb, a wretched room, filled with rubbish-old pieces of iron and brass ...

... wives and daugbtera of these poor men I could be seen prowling in the grev ot morning! about the streets of Limerick to pick up garbage i to take horne to feed their cattle, living therneelves in a state of filth and misery which lancuagel could hardly describe ...