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The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, by Bertram Waldrom Matz
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in preparing for his journey to London, taking sustenance, and
incidentally discussing "Widders" with his son Sam, exists to-day we
are unable to state with any certainty; but no doubt there is one
which would fill the bill. Which, too, was the particular room
where Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Tupman were arrested, the former on the
charge of intending to fight a duel, and the latter as aider and
abettor, history does not relate, or modern research reveal.

The inn is some four hundred years old, and at one time was known as
the White Horse Tavern. George II is said to have stayed there some
three hundred years ago, and so, report has it, did Nelson and Lady
Hamilton; but these are small matters compared to the larger ones
connected with Mr. Pickwick, and merit but passing record. Whilst
those details concerning the fictitious character can be adjusted by
any enthusiast who stays at the "Great White Horse" on a Pickwickian
pilgrimage, no tangible trace that the three other historical
personages used the inn remains to substantiate the fact, although
the tradition is acceptable.




CHAPTER XI

THE "GEORGE AND VULTURE"



Tucked away in the heart of the busiest part of the roaring city,
overshadowed by tall, hard-looking, modern banking and insurance
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