. Memorials of Thomas ste, but I likeLunnon where everything is to be had for money, andmoney is to he made, which gives it some advantage overeven cheap places. Besides, living quietly as we do,positively we do not spend more than we did abroad,where some things are cheaper, but others are dearerthan in England. And then the tax (universally leviedon the English) brings the countries to a par. TheEnglish I think are finding it out. I have tried to opentheir eyes. As to myself, I scarcely go to tOAvn aboveonce a month — we are about three miles from St. Pauls, 90 MEMORIALS OF THOMAS HOO
. Memorials of Thomas ste, but I likeLunnon where everything is to be had for money, andmoney is to he made, which gives it some advantage overeven cheap places. Besides, living quietly as we do,positively we do not spend more than we did abroad,where some things are cheaper, but others are dearerthan in England. And then the tax (universally leviedon the English) brings the countries to a par. TheEnglish I think are finding it out. I have tried to opentheir eyes. As to myself, I scarcely go to tOAvn aboveonce a month — we are about three miles from St. Pauls, 90 MEMORIALS OF THOMAS HOOD. SO that it is a walk for the children, and then we bussback, after a stroll to look at the shops, which are asgood as an Exhibition. Very rarely I dine out — theydine too late for me at seven, and a cold ride throughnight air lays me up for a month. I am grown, Tim,quite an old man, and an invalid for good, and am asthin as two Wildeganses. Jane is thinner, and not sostrong, but is not like me a teetotaller. ?Dam my. blood, as I say to the doctor, when I want it stopped —-I wonder where it all comes from! I seem to be likethose little red worms they bait with for gudgeon, with MEMORIALS OF THOMAS HOOD. 91 only blood and skin. And for all my temperance nobodygives me a medal! One hot evening last summer as 1walked home I could have murdered an old fish-womanwho stood drinking a pot of porter out of the cool pewter !why could nt she drink it in the tap-room, or at the bar,out of my sight ? I fully expect next dog-days to havethe Hydrophobia. But enough of myself. Have youheard yet in your remote out-of-the-way parts of theDaguerreotype? How I wish by some such process Icould get a picture of us all — the family group just aswe are — to send you ; then you would have me quite asill-looking as my portrait, and dressed for warmth in apea jacket and blue trowsers (my Ostend boat-costume).Jane as usual, but looking rather less puzzled than whenshe had to contend with fore
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