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One does not say: "You should see Brailsford's cat" or "You should see Adcock's cat" or "You should see Sharp's cat," but "You should see our cat." There is nothing we are more egoistic about not even children than about cats. I have heard a man, for lack of anything better to boast about, boasting that his cat eats cheese.
London is not only Dickens Land and Thackeray Land, but also the "Land" of many other writers. We may still eat in the Old Cheshire Cheese, where Johnson and Goldsmith dined. For this reason, all of the cathedral towns in England have been included in the literary map. Baedeker's London and its Environs. Adcock's Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London. Lang's Literary London.
To these are superadded the usual contents of a pocket book, so as to render the present volume a desirable vade-mecum for the operative, the manufacturer, and engineer. One of Mr. Adcock's most popular illustrations will not be uninteresting to the reader: "Force of Gunpowder."
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