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...also the recruiting sergeants, among them Sergeant Charley, the best known of all. He has stood at the corner of the National Gallery for many years, and has probably talked more country boys into Her Majesty’s service, consoled more weeping mothers, and cheered more disappointed maidens than any other man in the British army. There is no better place in which Sergeant Charley can operate than Trafalgar Square—or from which the stranger can begin London
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- London as seen by Charles Dana Gibson
by Charles Dana Gibson
Published 1897
Available as a free download from gutenberg.org - Posted on
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- 1254*1085
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- Century:19th, Charles Dana Gibson, Place:London
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