"In those days, too, we used to lunch at places which seem entirely to have disappeared. The is not so frequently met with as it was thirty years ago. The "alehouses" were, in fact, small shops fitted with a and a counter; they had been established by Mr. Crowley, a brewer of , on finding the difficulty of procuring ordinary public-houses for the sake of his beer; and at them was sold nothing but beer, es, bread and cheese, but all of the very best."
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Edmund Yates
(3 July 1831 – 20 May 1894) was a British journalist, novelist, playwright, editor, lecturer, and publicist. Yates, a close friend of Charles Dickens, was involved in a .
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