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Title: Gardens of celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Macgregor, Jessie
Subjects: Gardens
Publisher: London : Hutchinson & co.
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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Ah, Diogenes ! thy pride peeps out of every button of thycoat! The surgery at St. Thomass Hospital went by the name of the Shop. On a certain occasion the old professor was sittingin this room with a number of students, who were joking andbantering him, and each other, and he, on his part, was impressingupon them the folly of superfluities in dress. A youth, who lateron rose to eminence in his profession, said with assumed gravity : Well, but, Mr. Wheeler, how can you support such a doctrinewhen you yourself wear such a superfluity as this ? and he liftedup the small pig-tail which the professor wore. The old man,* taken aback, confessed that it was superfluous. Yes, mydear sir, you are right, we are too prone to preach one thing, andpractise another ; cut it off, sir, pray cut it off! and Laurence— for such was his name, forthwith performed the amputation.On another occasion Wheeler was driving in an open carriage withJames Lowe Wheeler, and Hurlock, a well-known member of the 134
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>. < CO THE CHELSEA * PHYSIGKE GARDEN Apothecaries Society, who himself told the story. He describedthe appearance of Thomas Wheeler ; how he sat on the box besidethe driver in the best of spirits, his hat off, his thin, light hairblowing about his face, and his large spectacles on his nose, alter-nately laughing and chatting with the coachman, and diving intohis hat with his huge pocket-knife, to separate and examine abundle of wild plants. Such a figure naturally attracted attentionalong the road, and, stopping at a turnpike gate, the partywas rather surprised by the evident interest and eagerness of thetoll-keeper, as he scratched his head, and, pointing to Mr. Wheeler,exclaimed in his blunt Kentish dialect : So ye ha got him atlast ! This was incomprehensible to all until they arrived ata small inn close to the parish of Barming, where they read aplacard offering a reward for an escaped lunatic. With the death of Thomas Wheeler a notable figure was removedfrom the old Chelse

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