The Mysteries of London; or, Revelations of the British Metropolis — page 115: what you’re looking at

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OF LONDON. 118 showed their rooms well filled with customers, and the policemen wera seen, hera and there, with their halfleathered hats, and their leaden _ sceptres. One of these public housas, situate at equal | distances from Bow-street 2nd Drury Lane, still preserved a certain appearance of respectability, and seemed to regret its more briliant days.— Over the door there still hung, on its rusty iren “rod, the remainder of a sign; in the bar, the counter could still boast of a dozen glasses, not more than six of which were cracked; and if - there were no draperies in the parlour, there was a complete canopy of cobwebs. As to what had % ‘been once the tap, it was now completely i inacces- 4 sible, the ceiling having fallen: ‘in—no one ever ‘approached the tap, This tavern, the most fou- Tishing one of the whole alley, was called The Pipe and Pot. ' Go in, Mike, my dear bratherd in-law, said a ‘shrilland broken veice outside the door, go in first. Tama man. and know what politeness is; and two coupies came in from the sireet, crossed the bar room, and went imto the parlour. The appearance of these persons was very sizgular.— The first couple consisted of a little girl, about thirteen-years of age, who had hold of the armof — arobust man of about forty. She was a peor, weak looking creature, thin, and exiremely pale, which she had ineffectually attempted to conceal under a thick layer ofrouge. Her stature, which had most probably been prevented from attaining its proper developement. by excesses of all des- k i ; } : i i- ~ ” ie > = a5 TS Rer er comichooks com