Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London . and every one who is in difficulties, and everybodywho fancies that he, or any friend, relation, or connection of his, hasa grievance, and can put pen to paper, four letters together in ortho-graphy and four words in syntax, must needs write a letter to theTimes; and of the metropolitan correspondents of that journal, theimmense majority themselves bring their letters down to the office,thinking, haply, that they might meet the editor standing promis-cuous on the door-step, and after some ^.ye minutes button-holding,secure,
Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London . and every one who is in difficulties, and everybodywho fancies that he, or any friend, relation, or connection of his, hasa grievance, and can put pen to paper, four letters together in ortho-graphy and four words in syntax, must needs write a letter to theTimes; and of the metropolitan correspondents of that journal, theimmense majority themselves bring their letters down to the office,thinking, haply, that they might meet the editor standing promis-cuous on the door-step, and after some ^.ye minutes button-holding,secure, irrevocably, the insertion of their communications. I dontat all envy the gentleman whose duty it is to open and read (do theyread them all ?) the letters addressed to the editor of the Times. * A post-prandial paper, called the Evening Mail, rarely seen in the metropolis,but extensively circulated in provinces, and especially in the colonies, and in *vUnited States, is published as a species of vesper thunderer at th£ Tildes office! 32 TWICE ROUND THE FIVE 0 CLOCK —PUBLICATION OF THE TIMES. 33
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