Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London . errot (an Englishman, for a wronder, and hopelessly gone in cham-pagne) to knock the postilion down. He wept piteously at first, but,gathering courage, and not liking, perhaps, to be humiliated in theeyes of a debardeur in claret-coloured velvet, he kicked up wildly atthe aggressor with his boots. Then the cavalier scratched his face;then the claret-coloured debardeur fainted ; then Mr. Edward Clyfaker,of Charles Street, Drury Lane, thief, cut in cleverly from between thewheels of a carriage, and picked Lord Holloways pocket
Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London . errot (an Englishman, for a wronder, and hopelessly gone in cham-pagne) to knock the postilion down. He wept piteously at first, but,gathering courage, and not liking, perhaps, to be humiliated in theeyes of a debardeur in claret-coloured velvet, he kicked up wildly atthe aggressor with his boots. Then the cavalier scratched his face;then the claret-coloured debardeur fainted ; then Mr. Edward Clyfaker,of Charles Street, Drury Lane, thief, cut in cleverly from between thewheels of a carriage, and picked Lord Holloways pocket of Miss Clay-painters cambric handkerchief; then A 22 drewr his truncheon and hitan inoffensive fox-hunter a violent blow on the head ; then four medicalstudents called out Fire ! and an inebriated costermonger, who hadnot been to the masquerade at all, but was quietly reeling home, chal-lenged Lord Claude Miffin to single combat; then Ned Eaggabonesand Robin Barelegs, street Arabs, threw cart-wheels into the midst THREE —THE NIGHT CHARGES AT BOW STREET. 389. §5IP1#
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