"COURT OF MIRACLES."
BEGGARS' DUAL LIVES. ALMS SPENT IN REVELRY. LOXDOX, August 16. The correspondent of the "Daily Mail" at Paris states that a modern "Court of Miracles," reminiscent of that described in Victor Hugo's "Xotre Dame de Paris," has been discovered. Scores of beggars, blind, lame, deaf, dumb, and paralysed, j repaired nightly to the house of "The I King of Egypt," himself a professional I "blind beggar," and squandered the alms : received in the daytime in night-long i revelry. j The neighbours complained, and the j police ejected the revellers, who, undaunted, resumed their revels with mii creasing joyousnesss on an adjacent piece of waste ground, the blind seeing, the deaf hearing, the armless men playing instruments, while "palsied cripples" flung down their crutchess and fox-trot-ted merrily in the glow of a camo fire. Police who interrupted them" were driven back with crutches and imitation , arms and legs. On the following morning the police returned, but the "beggars had disappeared to resume their frauduI lent employments.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 205, 29 August 1921, Page 5
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