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[title] => VICTORIAN POVERTY CRIME AND SQUALER.
[time] => 2012-10-14 04:06:44
[hometext] => The harsh life of the poor in Victorian London.
[bodytext] => Born into a life of poverty hardship and squalor where hunger bites and crime is rife in the dirty crowded cobbled streets where it's a daily battle to stay alive and find some food to survive. Uneducated illiterate caught in the poverty trap drinking polluted smelly water from the same typhoid cholera ridden tap. An impoverished woman sells her body for a bottle of gin and lodgings for the night a pickpocket and mucher ever watchful looking for a victims pocket to alight. Children run through the streets dressed in rags no shoes dirty feet the putrid smell from the gutter Smoke from the choking bellowing chimmnieys make it hard to breath rats as big as cats scurry and spread disease. Dilapidated buildings covered in black soot horse manure and raw sewage under foot. Beggars flea infested with large mournful eyes reach out pleading to passing gentry to fill their bowls with plenty. A peeler pins a notice to an old rusty nail of a forthcoming criminal hanging at the local Gaol for those few who could read. The street wise barrow traders shout and husstle among the throng and bussle [comments] => 2 [counter] => 148 [topic] => 8 [informant] => moogster [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => AmericanTragedy )
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