Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London . d toshow you the place, but it is better that the pen should leave the fulnessof representation to the pencil in this instance. It is humorous enough,brilliant enough, full of varied life and bustle enough. I could makeyou very merry with accounts of the mock Ethiopian serenaders at thedoor, with facetious remarks on the gentleman in the sou-wester, knee-shorts, anklejacks, and gaiters, who is instructing the lady in the mob-cap in the mysteries of the celebrated dance known as the EobertoPolveroso, or Dusty Bob and Black Sa
Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London . d toshow you the place, but it is better that the pen should leave the fulnessof representation to the pencil in this instance. It is humorous enough,brilliant enough, full of varied life and bustle enough. I could makeyou very merry with accounts of the mock Ethiopian serenaders at thedoor, with facetious remarks on the gentleman in the sou-wester, knee-shorts, anklejacks, and gaiters, who is instructing the lady in the mob-cap in the mysteries of the celebrated dance known as the EobertoPolveroso, or Dusty Bob and Black Sal. I might be eloquent uponthe subject of the sturdy sailor who is hobnobbing with the negro, theLife Guardsman treating the ladies, like a gallant fellow as he is, andthe stream of honest, hardworking mechanics, their wives, and families,who have surged in from the Vic/ to have their drop of beer. Butthe picture would still be incomplete. In graver pages-—in tedious,solemn journals only—could be told (and I have told, in my time) the 276 TWICE ROUND THE NINE —A DANCING ACADEMY. 277 truth about a gin-shop in the New Cut. I will not descant uponthe crime and shame, the age made hardened, the very babies weanedon gin. Let us take the better part, and throw a veil over this uglyposition of the night side of London. Do you ever read the supplement of the Times newspaper 1 Ofcourse you do; at least, you must diurnally peruse one column at leastof that succursal to the monster journal, specially interesting to your-self. Almost every one who can read is anxious to consult the Times55every morning for one purpose or other. Either he requires informa-tion about a ship that is going out, or a ship that should be come home;about a purse he has lost, or a bank-note he has found; about a situa-tion he wants, or a clerkship he has advertised for competition; aboutthe wife he has run away from, or the son who has run away from him;about the horse he wishes to sell, or about
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