Court, the _charge de affaires_ in the High Street,
for the conflicting interests of half a hundred coach proprietors 1 "Do
you travel to-day, sir?--Very happy to send for your luggage--Go by the
early coach, sir?--Our porter ~248~~shall call you up, only let me put
you down at our office." Thus actually bowing you into his book a
week before you had any serious intention of travelling, by the very
circumstance of reminding you of the mode by which you intend to reach
home. I could add to these sketches a few singularities among the
trading brotherhood of the Chelts; but we may meet again: and after
all it would, perhaps, be considered invidious to point out the honest
tradesman to public notice, merely because he has caught something of
the eccentricities of his betters, or, like them, is led away by the
force of example.
ERRATA.
In Chapter I, page 223, Contents, dele hi, and for Penn,
read pun. The Man in the Cloak, noble Anecdote of, instead
of the Fox* hunting Parson,--Printer.
TRAVELLER'S HALL.
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Sketches in the Commercial Room at the Bell Inn,
Cheltenltam--The Traveller's Ordinary--Trade Puns--Bolton
Trotters and Trottees--Song, All the Booksellers--Curious
Sporting Anecdote of a Commercial Man--Song, The Knight of
the Saddle Bags--Private Theatricals in Public--Visit to
the Oakland Cottages, a Night Scene.
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