[To TIIR EDITOR OF Tull SP EOTATOR.1
SM.—It is possible that the following case may interest your readers. It came under my personal observation at the time when " processions of the unemployed " were in vogue in the West End. A journeyman carpenter, whose character and work were excellent, asked for a day's holiday from the fore- man of the work upon which he just then was engaged in a S.E. suburb. The carpenter was deaf and dumb, and it amused me to see him receive his orders by word of finger and thumb. The foreman granted this request, and next time he saw the workman asked how be had spent his holiday. The carpenter replied, with some excitement of finger and thumb, that he had gone up to town, had joined the procession of the un- employed, and had been rewarded 4s. 7d. at the end of the day as his share of the collection—plunder I was on the point of
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