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Excerpt from Baptist Lake
In a very short time a village can be pulled down, a manor cut into squares, and filled With little cupboards of houses and ten thousand people. For eighteen months or so the new estate is very trim and neat a small patch of green behind, a smaller patch before each dwelling. Gradually the green wears away, children overrun every street, slatterns appear at gates, arms akimbo; men in slippers down at heel and torn coats are seen all the evening going for beer in cracked jugs; the spruce lodger leaves, and two, sometimes three, families crowd into each tiny house. A mile, half a mile further on, or to the right, or to the left, another Village has been pulled down, another manor cut into squares and lozenges, and built over; and all the better-to-do people have migrated thither. That is how the country is being eaten up a new order of slums is rapidly girdling London.
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