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Title: Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895 McConnell, William, 1833-1867
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Publisher: London, Houlston and Wright
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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grand consultation between the proprie-tors took place next day, whereat the brewer came out in a rabidly ■conservative point of view, and declared, striking a leathern-coveredtable, that he would sooner see his own Entire retailed at a pennya pint, than submit to an imitation in price of the rubbishingprints of a set of dam radicals. So the Daily Wagon keepsup its price, and manages to crawl on in a tortoise-like manner,supported by its advertisements. It sleeps a good deal, and doesntwrant much to eat; and will bear being trodden on, stumbledover, nay, occasionally jumped upon, without seeming in the leastto mind it. Mr. Limberly sits, then, in his sub-editorial throne—an unpre-tending cane-bottomed arm-chair—surrounded by his attaches andmyrmidons, his good men and true. The electric telegraph messenger—a spruce lad in the not unbecoming uniform of that recently-formedcorps—has just arrived, bearing a message which may announce either MIDNIGHT.—THE SUB-EDITORs ROOM. 329
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330 TWICE EOTJND THE CLOCK. war in the East or Peace in China, either a fluctuation in the funds atSt. Petersburg, or a murder at Haverfordwest; either the wreck of asteamer, with all hands lost, on the north-west coast of Ireland, orthe arrival in the Mersey of a clipper ship from Australia, with a fewscore thousand ounces of gold in her treasure-room, to say nothing ofthe nuggets, the gold dust, and the bankers receipts in the pockets ofher wide-awake-hatted passengers. But all is fish that comes to Mr.Limberlys net. Leading article and literary criticism, theatricalnotices and prices of railway and mining shares, advertisements andletters from eulogistic or indignant correspondents, telegrams andforeign tittle-tattle, fires, murders, fatal accidents, coroners inquests,enormous gooseberries, showers of frogs, the acceptances of the St.Leger, and the prices of hops in the Borough Market: he looksupon all these items but as so much copy, for which the masterprinter is waiting, and whi

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