hypothesis that I was a poor young man with

a wife and large family.

My first discovery was that empty houses were few and far between. So far between, in fact, that though I walked miles in irregular circles over a large area, I still remained between. Not one

A HOUSE TO LET.

empty house could I find

a conclusive proof that

the district was saturated.

It being plain that as a poor young man with a family I could rent no houses at all in this most

undesirable region, I next looked for rooms, unfurnished rooms, in which I could store my wife