CHAPTER XXIII.

Greenwich — The Poor of London — The Thames Tunnel — The Cremornc Gardens — The Dancing — The Hermit’s Cave, and the Magical Mirror — South Kensington Museum — The Zoo- logical Gardens — The Monkeys — The Elephant in Service — Regent Street and Piccadilly— The Bustle and Gay Life — Blanchard’s Restaurant — Haymarket Theatre and Sothern the Actor — Farewell to London — Liverpool — Preparing to Sail — The R. M. Steamship Scotia homeward bound — Char- lotte Cushman, a passenger — The Perils of Icebergs, and other Woes — “Home Again,” ----- -300
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PREFACE.
These pages, dedicated in love and gratitude to my mother, and originally destined for her eye alone, are — at the solicitation of friends— offered to the public with no other ambition than that they may serve to while away a dull hour or two. As life is half made up of baubles, I have mingled some of them with things of solid worth. Does not the sea-weed dwell with the pearl ?