Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray

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His writing hover, Jools came down and ad a gaym at pool with two Poles, a Bulgian, and 2
of his own countrymen. This being done amidst more hafanaf, without which nothink is
done in England, and as there was no French play that night, he & the two French gents
walked round and round Lester Squarr smoking segaws in the faces of other French gents
who were smoaking 2. And they talked about the granjer of France and the perfidgusness of
England, and looked at the aluminated pictur of Madame Wharton as Haryadney till
bedtime. But befor he slep, he finished his letter you may be sure, and called it his "Fust
Imprestiuns of Anglyterre."
"Mind and wake me early," he said to Boots, the ony Brittish subject in the "Hotel de l'Ail,"
and who therefore didn't understand him. "I wish to be at Smithfield at 6 hours to see THE
MEN SELL THEIR WIVES." And the young roag fell asleep, thinking what sort of a one
he'd buy.
This was the way Jools passed his days, and got infamation about Hengland and the
Henglish—walking round and round Lester Squarr all day, and every day with the same
company, occasionally dewussified by an Oprer Chorus-singer or a Jew or two, and every
afternoon in the Quadrant admiring the genteal sosiaty there. Munseer Jools was not over
well funnisht with pocket-money, and so his pleasure was of the gratis sort cheafly.
Well, one day as he and a friend was taking their turn among the aristoxy under the
Quadrant—they were struck all of a heap by seeing—But, stop! who WAS Jools's friend?
Here you have pictures of both—but the Istory of Jools's friend must be kep for another
innings.
II.
Not fur from that knowble and cheerflie Squear which Munseer Jools de Chacabac had
selacted for his eboad in London—not fur, I say, from Lester Squarr, is a rainje of bildings
called Pipping's Buildings, leading to Blue Lion Court, leading to St. Martin's Lane. You
know Pipping's Buildings by its greatest ornament, an am and beefouce (where Jools has
often stood admiring the degstaraty of the carver a-cuttin the varous jints), and by the little
fishmungur's, where you remark the mouldy lobsters, the fly-blown picklesammon, the
playbills, and the gingybear bottles in the window—above all, by the "Constantinople"
Divan, kep by the Misses Mordeky, and well known to every lover of "a prime sigaw and
an exlent cup of reel Moky Coffy for 6d."
The Constantinople Divann is greatly used by the foring gents of Lester Squar. I never ad
the good fortn to pass down Pipping's Buildings without seeing a haf a duzen of 'em on the
threshole of the extablishment, giving the street an oppertunity of testing the odar of the
Misses Mordeky's prime Avannas. Two or three mor may be visable inside, settn on the