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Updated: May 23, 2025
Why, he stared at me when I said 'Rosamond Street, and made me stick on 'Clerkenwell. Now here he is taking us down Snow Hill, when he should have been crossing Smithfield. Smithfield, cabby, Smithfield!" "Certain, Sir, Smiffle, if you gives the order;" and he turned the poor horse again, and took us up the hill, and among a great number of barriers.
"And this is the abode of the Muses, is it, sir?" our guest went on. "I know your writings very well. Clive here used to send me the Pall Mall Gazette every month." "We took it at Smiffle, regular," says Clive. "Always patronise Grey Friars men."
"Smiffle," it must be explained, is a fond abbreviation for Smithfield, near to which great mart of mutton and oxen our school is situated, and old Cistercians often playfully designate their place of education by the name of the neighbouring market. "Clive sent me the Gazette every month; and I read your romance of Walter Lorraine in my boat as I was coming down the river to Calcutta."
"What are you at?" cried the Major, with fury equalled by nothing except his fright. "Erema, untie my big rattan. Quick quick " "Captain," said the cabman, coolly, "I must have another shilling for this job. A hextra mile and a quarter, to your orders. You knows Lunnon so much better. Smiffle stopped new railway new meat market never heered of that now, did you?"
"What the deuce brings you here?" said I. He laughed and looked roguish. "My father that's my father would come. He's just come back from India. He says all the wits used to come here. I told him your name, and that you used to be very kind to me when I first went to Smithfield. I've left now: I'm to have a private tutor. I say, I've got such a jolly pony. It's better fun than old Smiffle."
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