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Title: A wanderer in London
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Subjects: Art -- England London London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Methuen & co.

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ns, I was awareof a crowd of upturned faces watching a little black spottravelling up the pillar. It reached the top, disappearedand appeared again, waving something. It was a SteepleJack, an intrepid gentleman from the north of England,if I recollect aright, who had the contract for the decora-tions, and with whom, on his descent, it was the privilegeof several newspaper men to have interviews. I was tempted after reading one of these to seek himmyself, and eitlier induce him to take me to the top withhim, or hand him a commission to describe the extent ofNelsons view from that altitude, Avhich, under the title What Nelson Sees, would, I thought, make a seasonableand novel Trafalgar Day article. But I dared neither toconverse with the living hero nor chmb to the dead one,and that article is still unwritten. On a clear day Nelsonmust have a fine prospect to the south — not quite to hisancient element^ of course, but away to the Surrey hills,and east and west along the winding river.
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