NEARNESS BEGETS INDIFFERENCE. 



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up " Shoot-up-Hill," to Home Villa, the home of our 

 friend. 



Although our host was born and reared in London, 

 and for many years past in business on Leadenhall 



THE TOWER OF LONDON. 



Street, he cannot trust himself to give us reliable 

 directions to many points which we wished to visit 

 without the aid of a map of the great metropolis. 



One reason for this is, some of the places after which 

 we are inquiring, and some of the objects of historic 



