Excerpt from London Side-Lights
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.
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.
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