The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . ler of Eastcheap, my visit havingdoubtless raised greatly her opinion of SiciToirTHE Boar^her legendary lore, and furnished an im- Head portant incident in the history of her life. 13. It cost me some difficulty, and much curious inquiry,to ferret out the humble hanger-on to the church. I had toexplore Crooked Lane and divers little alleys, and elbows, anddark passages, with which this old city is perforated like anancient cheese, or a worm-eaten chest of d
The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . ler of Eastcheap, my visit havingdoubtless raised greatly her opinion of SiciToirTHE Boar^her legendary lore, and furnished an im- Head portant incident in the history of her life. 13. It cost me some difficulty, and much curious inquiry,to ferret out the humble hanger-on to the church. I had toexplore Crooked Lane and divers little alleys, and elbows, anddark passages, with which this old city is perforated like anancient cheese, or a worm-eaten chest of drawers. At lengthI traced him to a corner of a small court surrounded by loftyhouses, where the inhabitants enjoy about as much of theface of heaven as a community of frogs at the bottom of a well. 14. The sexton was a meek, acquiescing little man of abowing, lowly habit; yet he had a pleasant twinkling in hiseye, and, if encouraged, would now and then hazard a smallpleasantry; such as a man of his low estate might venture tomake in the company of high church-wardens, and othermighty men of the earth. I found him in company with the. 128 THE SKETCH-BOOK deputy organist, seated apart, like Miltons angels, dis-coursing, no doubt, on high doctrinal points, and settling theaffairs of the church over a friendly pot of ale, — for the lowerclasses of English seldom deliberate on any weighty matterwithout the assistance of a cool tankard to clear their under-standings. I arrived at the moment when they had finishedtheir ale and their argument, and were about to repair to thechurch to put it in order; so having made known my wishes,I received their gracious permission to accompany them. 15. The church of St. Michaels, Crooked Lane, standing ashort distance from Billingsgate, is enriched with the tombsof many fishmongers of renown; and as every profession hasits galaxy of glory, and its constellation of great men, I pre-sume the monimient of a mighty fishmonger of the olden timeis rega
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