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The Business of Pleasure, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
The Business of Pleasure Vol 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Edmund Hodgson Yates If any reader of this book should require full and valuable information regarding the houses in the various suburbs of London, their size, rent, advantages and disadvantages, annual amount of sewer's rate and land-tax, soil, climate, quality of ""water, and other particulars, let him address a letter, post-paid, to ""Wanderer,"" under cover to t... more »he publishers, and he will have his heart's desire. I am "" Wanderer,"" if you please, and I am in a position to give the information named; for, during the Inst ten years, I have led a nomadic and peripatetic existence; now becoming the tenant of a .villa here, now blossoming as the denizen of a mansion there, sipping the sweets of the assessed taxes and the parochial rates, and then flying off, with my furniture in scve-
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I; Carefully Moved in Town and Country 1; CHAPTER II; An Eastek Revival22; CHAPTER III; The Millers and their Men37; CHAPTER IV; Case for the Prosecution60; CHAPTER V; Case for the Prisoner76; CHAPTER VI; Pinciiek Astray98; CHAPTER VII Boys110; CHAPTER VIII In and on an Omnibus122; CHAPTER IX; The Dirty Derby 134; CHAPTER X; Innocents' Day149; CHAPTER XL; Sawdust and Lamps167; CHAPTER XII Lectured in Basinghall Street 196; CHAPTER XIIL Haunted Hoxton207; CHAPTER XIV Very Hard upon my Aunt224; CHAPTER XV; Hotspur Street, W239; CHAPTER XVI Gazetting Extraordinary258; CHAPTER XVIL On the Public Service274; CHAPTER XVIII Assault and Battery296; CHAPTER XIX Silent Highwaymen309
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