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Excerpt from London Side-Lights <p>The mad enterprise started - quite appropriately from Hanwell, which has certain associations with madmen, though the majority of its inhabitants appear to be sane. The others are shut up. <p>For some years London has housed me. London has conveyed me to and fro in a more or less beaten track. With several millions I have day by day taken train or omnibus or cab with the other little ants that crawl from their ant-heap to the 'labour and back again. Just a few little bits of London had been covered and observed. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.