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man. ' They should be separated and 

 forced to live just so far apart. Their 

 squalor is the result of too great a min- 

 gling of one sort of being, the dirty class. 

 The Board of Health or whatever body 

 has the say should scatter them like so 

 many, so many well, I don't know 

 what; no species of insect, reptile, bird, 

 or beast, is sufficiently unclean to be men- 

 tioned in comparison. They live worse 

 than pigs in captivity. What a lot hu- 

 manity could learn in the matter of clean- 

 liness and general comfort from even the 

 poorest specimens of the game we sports- 

 men kill ! And are these disease-spread- 

 ing bipeds the superiors of our beautiful 

 deer family, our cleanly feathered tribe, 

 or my setter and my little cob ? not 

 much! Individuals of mankind may be 

 superior to their brothers, the so-called 

 lower animals, but the race never! " 



" They 're too poor to keep clean/' 

 ventured Corbin. 



" No, it is n't poverty that makes them 



