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Bro . Lewis Lewis , conveying an idea that the licensed victualling compatriot of tbe Ladies' . Highwayman Avas a Welshman . * I believe the correct phrase for the promenade of a pier is " deck . " I think this term must be applied to tbe flooring of Louey's saloon . I haA'e said that it is supported on piles , but I haA'e not told you yet that it is boAv-AvindoAved . From that Avonderf ul southern bay , ah ! what sights are to be seen ! Straight as a plummet line can drop beneath

you is the deep biwvn green AA'ater of old Father Thames—sometimes the old gentleman rather carelessly obtrudes his mud upon your vieAv , and doesn't decently cover bis bed with his ordinary aqueous counterpane . Then the more than half-naked Avaterside gamins pose picturesquely , with the broAvn old slush for an offecth'e background to their " smooth white marbly limbs , " and , catching your eye , invoke you " to chuck out a copper " and " see me go ' ead OA-er ears and pick it out o' the mud Avith my teeth , gnv ' nor . " If , impervious to this adjuration , you lift your eyes and look to the right , you shall see rising over Eennie ' s picturesque arches , well outlined against the eastern sky , the old

grey " toAA'ers of Julius , London ' s lasting shame , With many a foul ancl midnight murder fed , " and the A'ertical shaft of the " column pointing to the skies , " so rudely denounced by Pope , and the graceful spire of St . Dunstan ' s in the East , the flying buttresses , ornamenting the Thames in London so impressively , resembling the aerial supporters of the sister

edifice adorning the Tyne at NeAveastle . You shall catch a glimpse beneath Eennie ' s semicircles of tbe masts of tbe shi pping in tbe pool , of tbe black hulls and funnels of the outAvard bound steamers , of tbe smacks at Billingsgate , of the yards and cordage of the fruit clippers lying opposite at HorselydoAvn . Look to your right—as the showman says—and—but there the great black dome of Paid ' s almost fills up the field of AUBAA ' , and you had better look strai ght before youand you will see across the river Avhat Avere

, once Paris Garden and Cupar ' s . Garden , and AA'here in Elizabethan days tbey baited the bear , and . sturdy broad-muzzled dogs pinned the bull , and Avhere from tbe roofs of some half a dozen octagon-shaped edifices the flags used to fly denoting that within some ingenious device of the . Avitty Mr . Shakespeare , or the learned Master Ben Jonson , or the shreAvd " maker " Dekker was at that time—say about four in tbe afternoon—giving delight to some feAv hundreds of Her Majesty ' s lieges . Better still—look at

homethat is to say , taking Louey ' s as your temporary home—and you shall see—Avhat shall you see ? Why , you shall behold your vista barred Avith right lines and angles—you shall be conscious of a general peiwading sense of the abiding presence of the accompaniments of men " who go down to tbe sea in ships and occupy their business in great Avaters . " You shall see—you shall feel— Well , AA'ords fail me . Look out at the Eoyal Academy Exhibition this month for one of Mr . Tissot ' s interiors . Never mind the

sweetly pretty nautical—I Avas going to say naughty—girls , but I Avon't—maidens Avith Avhom it is his wont to people his delightful old maritime tavern parlours ; but regard the lines and sashes of his bay \ AdndoAVS , the " cross hatching " of the spars and tackle and Avharves and quays seen through them , the fresh clear crisp Canaletto effect of the Avaterscape as only Mr . Tissot can convey ifc , in—say—such a picture as the " Captain ' s Daughter" or the " Ball on Shiboard" Avbieb charmed us all on tbe AA'alls of

, p , years ago the Academy—and then—then you will realise the appearance of Louey ' s parlour upon the piles . And this salt flaA'our pertaining to Louey ' s is wholly inexplicable , for seafaring men do not as a rule thereunto resort . From outward garb or deportment I cannot form an idea of tbe social status of tbe greater number of its customers . They are respectably