[Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock]@TWC D-Link bookWinsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels CHAPTER X 61/73
We had soon sped away from the brightly lighted streets and tall apartment buildings among which my usual practice lay, and entered the gloomy and dilapidated section of the city where the unhappy capitalist class reside.
I need not remind those of you who know it that it is scarcely a cheerful place to find oneself in after nightfall.
The thick growth of trees, the silent gloom of the ill-lighted houses, and the rank undergrowth of shrubs give it an air of desolation, not to say danger. It is certainly not the place that a professional man would choose to be abroad in after dark.
The inhabitants, living, so it is said, on their scanty dividends and on such parts of their income as our taxation is still unable to reach, are not people that one would care to fall in with after nightfall. "Since the time of which I speak we have done much to introduce a better state of things.
The opening of day schools of carpentry, plumbing and calcimining for the children of the capitalist is already producing results.
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