Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . -. When night descends the business ofshop-keeping still goes on in all quartersof London removed from the great baker weighs out bread. At the otherside of the street a newsagents is still open,thi lugh it is long past ten. The billsof the evening papers on sale within are rangedoutside his door. In his window are cigarettes,notepaper, pens, ink, a piece of cardboard to SCENES FROM SFIOP AND STORE LONDON. 145. WAITING TO BUY TUIM-MIXGS OF MEAT. which lead pencils are affixe
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . -. When night descends the business ofshop-keeping still goes on in all quartersof London removed from the great baker weighs out bread. At the otherside of the street a newsagents is still open,thi lugh it is long past ten. The billsof the evening papers on sale within are rangedoutside his door. In his window are cigarettes,notepaper, pens, ink, a piece of cardboard to SCENES FROM SFIOP AND STORE LONDON. 145. WAITING TO BUY TUIM-MIXGS OF MEAT. which lead pencils are affixed, a box ofChristmas cards, and scrolls emblazoned withScriptural texts. A few doors further on is a marine storedealers. The light of an oil lamp revealsa curious assortment of goods. His stockincludes, besides rags and bones, waste paper,old and valueless furniture, veteran bedsteads,mysterious little heapsof batteredmetal, bottles, and time-wornbooks. Dolls, wax and wooden,horses and bears, monkeys ontiny painted poles, and otherwonderful creatures are in thewindows of the little toy shopopposite. They seem to havebeen there a long time, for thesun has pla_\ed strange prankswith their complexions, andsome of the dolls stand sorelyin need of spectacles. Thesmall trader does not worr_\ hissoul about what the fastidiouswould dub incongruities. It isnot unusual to come across ashop in a side street which atfirst sight seems to be an oil andcolour store and nothing closer acquaintance reveals saucebottles with flar
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