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Paperback, [PU: Forgotten Books], Excerpt from A York Pioneer's Recollections Visit to the Emerald Isle, and His Native Town, After an Absence of Forty Years: Together With Amusing Incide… More...

Paperback, [PU: Forgotten Books], Excerpt from A York Pioneer's Recollections Visit to the Emerald Isle, and His Native Town, After an Absence of Forty Years: Together With Amusing Incidents, and Anecdotes of Places and Odd Characters Met With, in Ireland and Other Parts of the British Isles Our next visit was to the Strand, and up Ludgate Hill; here we were attracted by a great display of gas over a build ing. The jets spelled the words Gaiety Theatre, and along Side of it a smaller building had a similar display of jets, spell ing the word Gaiety. This was a drinking saloon gorgeously fitted up, having several of the London pretty barmaids, whose habiliments were flimsy, gaudy and immodest. They were engaged by their wily masters as decoy ducks, to attract the soft youths, as we noticed a number of dudes stand ing at the counter, and being served with liquor and cigars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works., Computing: General<

2017, ISBN: 0332431355

Kartoniert / Broschiert SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, mit Schutzumschlag neu, [PU:Forgotten Books]