. A wanderer in London. n miles from Tyondon, and Ware is thirteen fromPximonton, twenty in .ill, and it is twentyniiles back f»il[)ins horse, a Cak-ndars hack, covered the dis-tance at a gallop with bnf one hall. ^oii see how rnijeli may j)roeee(l h(^\^^ n htlle. T hadmerely intended to take a walk from (Jheapside to Edmon- 182 A WANDERER IN LONDON ton and think of the merry ballad of John Gilpin on theway. But by so doing I hit upon a great fraud, andCowper, most amiable of men that ever wore a nightcap,stands convicted of having for upwards of a century hood-winked his fellows by
. A wanderer in London. n miles from Tyondon, and Ware is thirteen fromPximonton, twenty in .ill, and it is twentyniiles back f»il[)ins horse, a Cak-ndars hack, covered the dis-tance at a gallop with bnf one hall. ^oii see how rnijeli may j)roeee(l h(^\^^ n htlle. T hadmerely intended to take a walk from (Jheapside to Edmon- 182 A WANDERER IN LONDON ton and think of the merry ballad of John Gilpin on theway. But by so doing I hit upon a great fraud, andCowper, most amiable of men that ever wore a nightcap,stands convicted of having for upwards of a century hood-winked his fellows by inducing them by poetical cunning tobelieve in a ride that could never have been accomplished,in a route that could never be followed. Sad is it whenfaith in our household poets fails. One would begin towonder if the Royal George really sank, were it not for thereUcs of it in Whitehall. William Tell was discreditedlong ago, Robin Hood is no more than a myth, Shake-speare is Bacon; alas, that John Gilpin should go too!. X, u>-)I-) -«! ■J ►J <: a: 2 H■< < X a X M X nu H u X il H CIL\PTER XIII THE TOWER AND THE AMPHIBIANS Tower Hill and its vactims — All Hallows, Barking — Ainsworthsromance — The Little Princes — St. Johns Chapel — The Praiseof Snuff — The Armouries — The Jewels — The Tower Residences— Jamrachs — Well-close Square — The Tower Bridge — Stories — Roofs and Chimneys — Pessimism in a Train —Reverence for the Law — The Ocean in Urbe — The most interest-ing terminus — Docks — Stepney and Limehouse — China in Lon-don— Canal Life — Thank you, Driver — An Intruder andthe mot juste OX the way to the Tower from Mark Lane station onecrosses Tower Hill — pcrliaps, if the traffic permits,walking over the very spot on which stood the old I was last there a flock of pigeons was feedingexactly where I judged it to have been — that scaffold onwhich so many noljle heads were struck from th
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