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Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ign of Elizabeth. He erected at his own ex-pense a beautiful structure in the Flemish styleof architecture, with shops on the first floor. Abell-tower, crowned by a huge grasshopper,stood on one side of the chief entrance. Thebell in this tower summoned the merchants attwelve oclock noon and six oclock evening.During the Great Fire of 1666 the building wastotally destroyed. The statues of kings andqueens which ornamented the corridors were ;.« !•• .■! 1 .■.■II ■■»i.«WW»ui»S.<i.*»~l«wfc»«ii** THE GOLDEN GRASSHOPPER ON THE TOWEROF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. Bridge; and Dryden also mentions the stone inhis fable of The Cook and the Fox. Stowgives a picturesque glimpse of the old denizensof the neighborhood passing by this stone inthe reign of Henry VIII. One of the most notable of old Londonsigns, The Dogs Head in the Iron Pot, hadits beginning in the early years of the reign ofthat same bluff King Hal. It stands out, alonely figure on Blackfriars Road at the corner of
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LONDON STONE. 1903.) THE SIGNS OF OLD LONDON. 163 precipitated into the enormous cellars, and withthem the tower and grasshopper. Gresham was loyally loved by the metropolis,and his generous services were not forgotten.From the mountain of debris the grasshopperwas rescued, and it was placed — a lofty vaneof gilt brass — above the new dome supportedby eight Corinthiancolumns, and to thishour swings to thepoints of the compass,perpetuating the signand crest of the Gresh-am family. The oldclock in this tower hadfour dials and chimedfour times daily. OnSunday, the 104thPsalm ; on Monday,God Save the King;on Tuesday, Water-loo March ; on Wed-nesday, Theres naeluck aboot the hoose ;on Thursday, See,the Conquering HeroComes; on Friday, Life Let Us Cher-ish; and on Satur-day, Foot - GuardsMarch. In 1838 fireagain devastated thestately building, begin-ning soon after ten atnight, and by the nextmorning the clock-tower alone was stand-ing. It is significantthat the last air playedby the ch

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