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"Meaning?"

"This 'ere bolt"

"Are you the landlord, then?"

"I be; and if you feel inclined for a ly," said I, "but what of the axle?"

"Plenty o' ti

down his hammer upon a bench hard by, he led the way into the

tap The ale was very strong and good; indeed this lovely county

of Kent is justly fary,

the landlord forthwith produced a hty round of beef, upon

which we both fell to, and ate with a will Which done, I pulled

outhi And presently, learning I was

fro reat city, of which it seeh, and I, to describe its wonders as well as Ihi to be shown hted a candle, and led the

way up a so open a door at the end, I found myself in a fair-sized

chamber with a decent white bed, which he introduced to my notice

by the one word, feathers" Hereupon he pinched off the snuff of

the candle with an expression of ponderous thought

"And so the Tower o' London ain't a tower?" he inquired at last