HUNTS WITH JORROCKS 



good -humour in his looks that pleased at first 

 sight, and made one forget all the rest. His 

 dress was generally the same a puddingey white 

 neckcloth tied in a knot, capacious shirt frill (shirt 

 made without collars), a single-breasted high- 

 collared buff waistcoat with covered buttons, a 

 blue coat with metal ones, dark blue stockingnet 

 pantaloons, and hessian boots with large tassels, 

 displaying the liberal dimensions of his full, well- 

 turned limbs. The coat pockets were outside, and 

 the back buttons far apart. 



His business place was in St. Botolph's Lane, 

 in the City, but his residence was in Great Coram 

 Street. This is rather a curious locality, city 

 people considering it west, while those in the west 

 consider it east. The fact is, that Great Coram 

 Street is somewhere about the centre of London, 

 near the London University, and not a great way 

 from the Euston station of the Birmingham railway. 

 Jorrocks says it is close to the two best cover 

 hacks in the world, the Great Northern and Euston 

 stations. Approaching it from the east, which 



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