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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 217

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sed to be those of the land-lord who rebuilt the house in 1690, the yearafter the great Southwark fire in the precedingSeptember. One of the features of Londonlife in those days was the Southwark Fair. Inhis celebrated picture of this fair, Hogarth in-troduces the sign of The Half-Moon—per-haps the… … THE SIGN OF THETHE MITRE, ON A PUBLIC HOUSE ERECTED ON THE SITE OFOLD TOWN RESIDENCE OF THE BISHOPS OF ELY. lore. There are black, white, brown, and redbears; bear inns and bear quays; loose bears igo4.] THE SIGNS OF OLD LONDON. 205

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