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Evening Star, Issue 17329, 17 April 1920, Page 3

A LONDON STREET SCENE. By Leicester square one drizzling winter night I heard them on the pavement: “ If you think You can afford to drink, go on with drinking.” She mocked him. And the man began; “ All right; I can't afford it ”; (louder) “ but I like it! . . .” He cut a silly caper, hummed an air. And swung his hand-bag gaily. Then the pair Stopped where some people waited for a bus. She nagged again—that wife so pinched and prim. “ Shurrup!” he snapped. She flinched away from him As if he’d struck her. Someone turned to see Him dance and spend his whiskyworth of glee Under a London lamp's unpitying ray: Saw a beaked nose, moustache untidyB«y, White scowling face, and sunken eyes that burned Beneath his shabby bowler. , , , Someone turned, Fixing the squalid wrangle wtth a glance. He was a tail young soldier; at his side A girl in all her prettiness and pride. And while the bus loomed up I saw him stoop To kiss her happy face, as though he feared His tenderness might vanish. Then the group Jostled and clutched and climbed and disappeared. —Siegfried Sassoon, in the ‘ New Statesman.’ Wicks; “Back to town again? I thought you were a farmer.” Hicks: “ You made the same mistake as I did.”

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