refreshment-boxes

Updated: August 29, 2026

There were the walks, beautifully gravelled and planted—and the refreshment-boxes, painted and ornamented like so many snuff-boxes—and the variegated lamps shedding their rich light upon the company’s heads—and the place for dancing ready chalked for the company’s feet—and a Moorish band playing at one end of the gardens—and an opposition military band playing away at the other.

Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people