Part 6 (1/2)
”You have been a general salesate Market 32 years?”-”Yes”
”What is about the annual amount of your sales?”-”I turn over 300,000 in a year”
”Would a railway that facilitated the coe to your business?”-”I think it would be a special advantage to London altogether”
”In ay?”-”The facility of having goods brought in reference to live stock is very i Mr Bowman, of Bristol, 1,000 a-week for s to htered in London; and I have, out of that 1,000 a-week as s die on the road, and they have sold for little or nothing The exertion of the pigs kills thes on a railould be a great advantage?”-”Yes, as far as having the pigs co subject to a diste before you, and when they are killed in good health they die a natural colour”
”Then do I understand you that those who are fortunate enough to survive the journey are the worse for it?”-”Yes, in weight”
”And in quality?”-”Yes! All meat killed in the country, and delivered in the London ood state, will htered in London”
THE ANXIOUS HAIR-DRESSER
”Clanwillia an incident which proves the wonderful celerity of the railroads Mr Isidore, the Queen's coiffeur, who receives 2,000 a year for dressing Her Majesty's hair twice-a-day, had gone to London in theto return to Windsor in ti at the station he was just five minutes too late, and saw the train depart without hireat, as he knew that his want of punctuality would deprive him of his place, as no train would start for the next two hours The only resource was to order a special train, for which he was obliged to pay 18; but the establish the importance of his business, ordered extra steam to be put on, and convoyed the anxious hair-dresser 18 miles in 18 minutes, which extricated him from all his difficulties”
_Raike's Diary from_ 1831 _to_ 1847
SHARP PRACTICE
Sir Francis Head, Bart, in his _Stokers and Pokers_, re the construction of the present London and North Western Railway, a landlady at Hillby, of very sharp practice, which she had is foraloud that no navvy should ever ”do” her; and although the railas in her ih the navvies were her principal custo the invidious re scarcely left her large, full-blown, rosy lips, when a fine-looking young felloalking up to her, carrying in both hands a huge stone bottle, coallon of gin;' which was no sooner measured and poured in than the money was rudely demanded before it could be taken away
”On the navvy declining to pay the exorbitant price asked, the landlady, with a face like a peony, angrily told hiin or _instantly_ return it
”He silently chose the latter, and accordingly, while the eyes of his antagonist rathfully fixed upon his, he returned into her allon, and then quietly walked off; but having previously put into his grey-neck half a gallon of water, each party eventually found thein and water; and, however either may have enjoyed the mixture, it is historically recorded at Hillain heard unnecessarily to boast that no navvy could _do_ her”
A NAVVY'S REASON FOR NOT GOING TO CHURCH
A navvy at Kilsby, being asked why he did not go to church? duly answered in geological language-”_Why_, _Soonday hasn't cropped out here yet_!”
By which he e had not yet arrived