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Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour

CHAPTER XIX
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With _Mogg_ in my hand, I can almost fancy myself in both places at once.

Omnibus guide,' added he, turning over the leaves, and reading, 'Acton five, from the end of Oxford Street and the Edger Road--see Ealing; Edmonton seven, from Shoreditch Church--"Green Man and Still" Oxford Street--Shepherd's Bush and Starch Green, Bank, and Whitechapel--Tooting--Totteridge--Wandsworth; in short, every place near town.

Then the cab fares are truly invaluable; you have ten thousand of them here,' said he, tapping the book, 'and you may calculate as many more for yourself as ever you like.

Nothing to do but sit in an arm-chair on a wet day like this, and say, If from the Mile End turnpike to the "Castle" on the Kingsland Road is so much, how much should it be to the "Yorkshire Stingo," or Pine-Apple-Place, Maida Vale?
And you measure by other fares till you get as near the place you want as you can, if it isn't set down in black and white to your hand in the book.' 'Just so,' said Jawleyford, 'just so.

It must be a very useful work indeed, very useful work.


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