⁂ At home from 2 till 6.
Licensed Hawker, No. ——
Please to observe the brass plate in the window.
How often, too, accompanying such advertisements as the preceding, do we find paragraphs, in the laudatory style, to some such effect as the following (see also page [44]). It requires but little penetration to arrive at a conclusion as to who are the authors of them.
Puff Paragraph, No. 1.—We again call the attention of our readers to Mr. —— and his valuable assortment of Spectacles. They are manufactured with extraordinary care, and constructed upon the strictest scientific principles. M. —— has for a long period past devoted his attention exclusively to that important branch of optics—the human eye;—and the proficiency he has attained of the complicated structure of that noble organ has enabled him to adapt glasses to every degree of defective vision. But the highest panegyric which can be pronounced upon the skill of this artist, is the unprecedented number of applications which have been made to him.
Our readers will observe, that his stay is restricted to a few days.
Puff Paragraph, No. 2.—We have more than once had occasion to allude to the surreptitious conduct of individuals, who are eager to profit by the established reputation of our resident opticians, Messrs. ——, who are about making arrangements for visiting all the neighbouring towns, making this place their permanent residence.[15]
The “Messrs. ——,” the “resident,” the “distinguished,” decamped at the expiration of three weeks.