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them from top to toe, and sometimes bringing 

 all the power of the bull's eye lantern to bear 

 upon them ; but as soon as they saw the rod 

 on their shoulders, and the basket at their 

 backs, they desisted, for the tale was told, they 

 were anglers. It was not daylight until they 

 had got away from busy London, though they 

 could perceive it in the distance with its spires 

 and smoke, which seem, to tell what a mighty 

 mass of human-kind there is beneath them, 

 what cares and joys, pleasures and pains, 

 crimes and virtues, are there. 



But our travellers were thinking about other 

 things ; jack and pike were the principal, no 

 doubt, but there were others which now began to 

 be busy in their brains. Bigings began to think 

 that he should like his breakfast, for he was 

 always in the habit of having it directly he got 

 up, and sometimes his good wife indulged him 

 with it in bed, if she were up early and he said 

 he was tired, as was the case sometimes on a 

 Monday morning. There was, therefore, no 

 agreement between this Monday morning and 

 those that had gone by, and his stomach did 

 not like the change at all, for it murmured and 

 grumbled tremendously, making a noise some- 

 thing like thunder at a distance; and he told 



