Quotation from: The People of the Abyss

Written by: Jack London


"Wot?" he answered, recoiling from me. "An' get run in fer three months!
Blimey if I do!"


Later on I was passing Hyde Park with a young boy of fourteen or fifteen,
a most wretched-looking youth, gaunt and hollow-eyed and sick.


"Let's go over the fence," I proposed, "and crawl into the shrubbery for
a sleep. The bobbies couldn't find us there."


"No fear," he answered. "There's the park guardians, and they'd run you
in for six months."

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