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small ones for particular purposes. The meat stalls are frequent- 

 ly owned by women, and, except a better supply of birds and 

 rabbits, did not offer any thing different from those of our butch- 

 ers. A part of the market seemed to be occupied by country 

 women for the sale of miscellaneous wares. 



The fish market was in another building, which was entirely 

 occupied by women, nice and neat, though skinning eels and 

 cleaning fish. The milk market also seemed to be altogether in 

 the hands of women. Milk is not peddled about as in New York, 

 but sold from cellar shops. If one wants a cup of tea, our land- 

 lady runs across the street for a penny-worth of milk. " From 

 hand to mouth " so, seems to be common with many things. The 

 material for our breakfast is mostly bought after we have ordered 

 it. As we did not mention what we would have till after the 

 shops were closed last night, we had to wait till nine o'clock for 

 it this morning. Business hours begin later than in America. 

 I think the market is not open till eight, which they speak of as 

 "early." 



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