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Updated: July 22, 2025
The first costermonger a girl's voice, it sounded passed, crying shrilly: "Watercreases, fine fresh watercreases with your breakfast-a'penny a bundle watercreases;" and further off a hoarse youth was wailing: "Mee-ilk-mee-ilk-oi." Inch by inch my mother opened the door wider and we stole in. He was lying with his eyes still closed, the lips just slightly parted.
The upper room was empty; a long table exhibited knives and forks, but there were no signs of active business. Andrew pulled a bell-rope; the summons was answered by an asthmatic woman, who received an order for tea, toast, 'watercreases', and sundry other constituents of a modest meal. 'Come 'ere often, Godwin? inquired Andrew, as he stood by the window and mused. 'Now and then, for a bun.
It's only I'm peckish. Very peckish, though. I could eat let me see what I could eat: I could eat a lobster-salad, and two dozen oysters, and a lump of cake, and a wing and a leg of a chicken if it was a spring chicken, with watercreases round it and a Bath-bun, and a sandwich; and in fact I don't know what I couldn't eat, except just that crust in the cupboard.
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