I have found that it is not easy to get into the casual ward of the workhouse.

I have made two attempts now, and I shall shortly make a third.

The first time I started out at seven o'clock in the evening with four shillings in my pocket.

Herein I committed two errors.

In the first place, the applicant for admission to the casual ward must be destitute, and as he is subjected to a rigorous search, he must really be destitute; and fourpence, much less four shillings, is sufficient affluence to disqualify him.