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DAMP AND DARK HOUSES IN LONDON

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1855
DAMP AND DARK HOUSES IN LONDON
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268 FRANK LESLIES ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPAR Marcu 16 1861 down one of the many railroads leading out of Londonone house was too damp one too dark others small bleak lonely staring or tumbledown. The following day I wenthalf hoping the inspection would confirm a growing disposition to give the whole thing up and live not without precedent in town Arrived at the station. I yielded to the pressure of the solitary flyman and bade him drive me to the Grange for this was the title of the house. I sought We had not left the cluster of sheds which had grown up near the station above ten minutes wien 8 caught glimpses through a fence of a low gray stone building with mullioned windows half hidden in a clump of cedars the whole set in the corner of a pleasant parklike paddock.

I was just saying to myself. I wish the Grange may be like this when the driver touched his hat and said ShallI drive you in by the back way six the front is open. This seemed an odd reason for choosing the approach he suggested but. I replied Oh yes certainly thinking that the HON JAMES SIMONS BrigadicrGeneral.

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