"I wish that, in this age so enamoured of statistical information, when we must needs know how many loads of manure go to every acre of turnip-field, and how many jail-birds are thrust into the black hole per mensem for fracturing their pannikins, or tearing their convict jacket, that some or would tabulate for me the amount of provisions, solid and liquid, consumed at the breakfasts of London every morning. I want to know how many thousand eggs are daily chipped, how many of those embryo chickens are poached, and how many fried; how many tons of quartern loaves are cut up to make bread-and-butter, thick and thin; how many porkers have been sacrificed to provide the bacon rashers, fat and streaky; what rivers have been drained, what fuel consumed, what mounds of salt employed, what volumes of smoke emitted, to catch and cure the finny s and the s, that grace our morning repast."
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"Nine o'clock A.M.—the clerks at the bank, and the boats on the river". Twice Round the Clock; or, The Hours of the Day and Night in London (London: Houlston and Wright, 1859) p. 78; illustrated by
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George Augustus Henry Sala
George Augustus Henry Sala (24 November 1828 – 8 December 1895) was an English journalist.
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