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CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Descent 1 II. Johnny Upright 16 III. My Lodging and Some Others 23 IV. A Man and the Abyss 30 V. Those on the Edge 43 VI. Frying-pan Alley and a Glimpse of Inferno 54 VII. A Winner of the Victoria Cross 65 VIII. The Carter and the Carpenter 74 IX. The Spike 91 X. Carrying the Banner 113 XI. The Peg 121 XII. Coronation Day 138 XIII. Dan Cullen, Docker 158 XIV. Hops and Hoppers 167 XV. The Sea Wife 180 XVI. Property versus Person 186 XVII. Inefficiency 192 XVIII. Wages 202 XIX. The Ghetto 210 XX. Coffee-houses and Doss-houses 232 XXI. The Precariousness of Life 250 XXII. Suicide 263 XXIII. The Children 274 XXIV. A Vision of the Night 283 XXV. The Hunger Wail 289 XXVI. Drink, Temperance and Thrift 300 XXVII. The Management 311 |