. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. deup beds, especially for visitors from various counties, A LITTLE DINNER. 249 where they might possibly meet with friends, or hear thelast news about them, and see the county newspaper;(vhilst all, without exception, and most of the taverns, sup-plied their customers with dinners, and other food—in fact,they acted as victuallers, and not as the keepers ofdrinkeries, as now. There were, besides, many of thecheaper class of eating houses, called cook shops, scatteredover every part of the town, at which a plentiful dinner
. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. deup beds, especially for visitors from various counties, A LITTLE DINNER. 249 where they might possibly meet with friends, or hear thelast news about them, and see the county newspaper;(vhilst all, without exception, and most of the taverns, sup-plied their customers with dinners, and other food—in fact,they acted as victuallers, and not as the keepers ofdrinkeries, as now. There were, besides, many of thecheaper class of eating houses, called cook shops, scatteredover every part of the town, at which a plentiful dinnermight be obtained at, from a shilling, to eighteenpence. Inaddition, there were very many a la mode beef houses, andsoup shops, so that every taste, and purse, was closing these notes on feeding, early in the century,I must chronicle a little dinner. Morning Post, July 26,1800: At a village in Cheshire, last year, three clergy-men, after dinner, ate fourteen quarts of nuts, and, duringtheir sitting, drank six bottles of port wine, and NO otherliquor!. «>0 0 0 C> 0 0 0 4>Co ?• o c o<iOOOO 0<~»0-00 0-C000000<30«>0«>C€>00<»<J /|x i^ i}\ ijx it« / J V J }\ j|i/}\/|i/f» i j\ ;|\/|\/j\ i^i i j\ ;|\ i|\ iji/j\/|\ i|\ i|\ jp/p CHAPTER XXX. Mens dress—the Jean de Bry coat—Short coats fashionable at waterings-places—All Bond Street trembled as he strode—Rules for the behaviour of a Bond Street Lounger. OF Dress, either of men, or women, there is httle tochronicle during this ten years. The mutationsduring a similar period, at the close of the previouscentury, had been so numerous, and radical, as to be suffi-cient to satisfy any ordinary being ; so that, with the ex-ception of the ordinary changes of fashion, which t
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