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Excerpt from The True History Tom and Jerry: Or the Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London From the Start to the Finish! With a Key to the Persons and Places, Together With a Vocabulary and Glossary of the Flash and Slang Terms, Occuring in the Course of the Work "Nothing succeeds like success" - or "Fails like failure." Prince Talleyrand cum Baron Nicholson! That Pierce Egan's Life in London, or Tom and Jerry, was a success, we have plenty of printed evidence and 'hearsay'! to prove. And we also know - beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the news of its metropolitan fame went forth with almost telegraphic speed throughout the provinces: - From John o'Groat's House to the Land's End! - From Dan to Beersheba! - and back again! With Life in London, its language became the language of the day; drawing-rooms were turned into chaffing cribs, and rank and beauty learned to patter flash ad nauseam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.