“COURT OF MIRACLES”
BEGGARS’ DUAL LIVES. ALMS SPENT IN REVELRY. LONDON, 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 “Notre Dame de Baris,” has been discovered. Scores of beggars, blind, lame, deaf, dumb, and paralysed, repaired nightly to the house of “The King pf Egypt,” himself a professional “blind beggar,” and squandered the alms received in the daytime in night-long revelry. The neighbours complained, and the police ejected, the revellers, who, undaunted, resumed their revels with increasing joyousness on an adjacent piece of waste ground, the blind seeing, the .deaf hearing, the armless men playing instruments, while “palsied cripples” flung down their crutches and fox-trotted merrily in the glow of a camp fire. Pplice 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 fraudulent employments.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10993, 31 August 1921, Page 6
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