The chief features in the still life of the street are green shutters, lodging-bills, brass door-plates, and bell-handles; the principal specimens of animated nature, the pot-boy, the muffin youth, and the baked-potato man.

The population is migratory, usually disappearing on the verge of quarter-day, and generally by night.

His Majesty's revenues are seldom collected in this happy valley; the rents are dubious; and the water communication is very frequently cut off.
Mr.Bob Sawyer embellished one side of the fire, in his first-floor front, early on the evening for which he had invited Mr.Pickwick, and Mr.Ben Allen the other.

The preparations for the reception of visitors appeared to be completed.

The umbrellas in the passage had been heaped into the little corner outside the back-parlour door; the bonnet and shawl of the landlady's servant had been removed from the bannisters; there were not more than two pairs of pattens on the street-door mat; and a kitchen candle, with a very long snuff, burned cheerfully on the ledge of the staircase window.