Excerpt from Gaslight and Daylight: With Some London Scenes They Shine Upon IT is commonly asserted, and as commonly believed, that there are seventy thousand persons in London who rise every morn ing without the slightest knowledge as to where they Shall lay their heads at night. However the number may be over or understated, it is very certain that a vast quantity of people are daily in the above-mentioned uncertainty regarding Sleep ing accommodation, and that when night approaches, a great majority solve the problem in a somewhat (to themselves) disagreeable manner, by not going to bed at all.

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