Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London . emens, wholesale dealers counting-houses that existin London city, you will be able to form an idea of the legions of clerks,juniors and seniors, who, invariably early-breakfasting men, must getseriously hungry at one Some I know are too proud to dine atthis patriarchal hour. They dine, after office hours, at Simpsons, at theAlbion, at the London, or, save us, at the Wellington. They go evenfurther west, and patronise Feetums, or the Scotch Stores in RegentStreet, merely skating out, as it wrere, for a few minutes at no
Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London . emens, wholesale dealers counting-houses that existin London city, you will be able to form an idea of the legions of clerks,juniors and seniors, who, invariably early-breakfasting men, must getseriously hungry at one Some I know are too proud to dine atthis patriarchal hour. They dine, after office hours, at Simpsons, at theAlbion, at the London, or, save us, at the Wellington. They go evenfurther west, and patronise Feetums, or the Scotch Stores in RegentStreet, merely skating out, as it wrere, for a few minutes at noon, for asnack at that Bay Tree to which I have already alluded. Many, andthey are the married clerks, bring neat parcels with them, containingsandwiches or bread-and-cheese, consuming those refreshments in thecounting-house. In the very great houses, it is not considered etiquetteto dine during office-hours, save on foreign-post nights. As to theextremely junior clerks, or office-boys, as they are irreverently termed, ONE —DOCK LONDOX AND DINING LONDON. 1-1J. 142 TWICE SOUND TEE CLOCK. they eat whatever they can get, and whenever they can get it, very fre-quently getting nothing at all. But there are yet hundreds uponhundreds of clerks who consume an orthodox dinner of meat, vegetables,and cheese—and on high days and holidays pudding—at one numbers are sufficient to cram almost to suffocation the eating-houses of Cheapside, the Poultry, Mark Lane, Cornhill, and especiallyBucklersbury. Of late years there has been an attempt to change theeating-houses of Cheapside into pseudo restaurants. Seductiveannouncements^ brilliantly emblazoned, and showily framed and glazed,have been hung up, relating to turtle and venison ; salmon, withwide waddling months, have gasped in the windows ; and insinuatingmural inscriptions have hinted at the existence of Private dining-rooms for ladies. Now, whatever can ladies—though I have theauthority of Mr. Charles Dibdin and my o
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