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responded with "Tuppence each, Chawlie" at' the same time pointing to hia basket of fish, Heedless to remark, his kind offer was not accepted,
Whitechapel, supposedly, as I had thought, the slums of London, in reality is about the widest street in the city, and while it is in the Yiddish quarter, contains some very nice stores.
Drawing on for noon about this time so we grabbed a bus to go up to the Charing Cross Y. for a bite to eat. Just after passing the Bank of England} I happened to see three fellows walking along, wearing uniforms mighty like the 67th, I glanced back after we passed, and judge to my surprise I knew two of them, Stan Young being one, I guess the people on the bus thought I had gene crazy as I whistled and yelled to catch his eye, and then the three of us left the bus in the lurch and just about pumped his arm off.
Say, maybe he wasn’t glad to see us. You know that laugh of his, (I’m smiling even as I write this), well apparently it had been in storage for quite a while according to his tale, but it certainly hadn't been in long enough to grow rusty. I’ll bet thattparti- cular part of the Strand had never heard such roars of laughter as we emitted while swapping experiences and views of England and English oustoms. Honestly I laughed until the tears ran down my faoe.^'
We all had dinner together in the Charing Cross Y, and after we had finished decided to run out to Hampstead Heath, Unfortunately "’Ampstead ’Eath" was rather deserted, and as its general appearance reminded us Shomcliffe, our stay was a very limited one. Back to the Strand again, we turned our footsteps into St. James Park along Pall Mall. Rather nice park, nothing out of the ordinary though. We passed Queen Alexandra’s residence on our way down the Mall, also the Duke of Connaught's London house. At the extreme end of the Mall, in front of Buckingham Palace is the statue of Queen Viotoria, a marvelous piece of work, which must have oost thousands of pounds'^.The royal ensign was at the top of the flag pole, so the King was' on the job, but unfortunately we hadn't the time to drop in and see him. The roof of the Palace is entirely covered by steel nets as a protection against air craft. The park itself is alsoused as a decoy for Zeps. A lake formerly occupied one part of it, but it has been drained ao that its shining surface cannot be seen from above. Lanterns are placed on the grass in rows to resemble street lights, so that seen from above they would, be taken as such, and bombs dropped there wouldn't do much damage,7^
We ate supper in the Tottenham Court Road Y. which is the largest Y. in England, Swell place, almost too much so, to my way of thinking. The main idea of a Y. is to. make the stranger welcome, butt can’t imagine such a thing happening in that building. However the main thing is that we ate there and were satisfied.
Now we’re back on the strand again, but what a difference from
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