And the same feeling of novelty is equally strong in the
morning. First of all you hear strange noises in the street —
perfectly dilferent to the out-of-door sounds of England. Odd,
unnatural carts go jingling by, taking the wrong side of the
road, and very like the Liverpool 'floats' in their two-wheel
build. The women are again at work, carrying their loads
about like ants, (and funny men would say, perhaps some ot
them are) with no perceptible object. Twenty men art; doing
the work of one, upon tlic poit, outside the chai'*v uid the



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uteamer that fought the sea so lustily the night before, and
beat it, is lying at the quay, guarded by a soldier who looks
IS if ho had walked from a toy-stall in the Lowther Arcade,
and is put there to keep the bottles of stout and British manu-
factuBCS generally, from marching ashore.
