If the toll-keepers on Waterloo Bridge have any private friends?
What direction of the compass Marylebone Lane runs in, and where it begins and ends?
When the gates of Leicester Square were last unlocked; and who goes in, except the cats?
What lobster sauce is made of at cheap eating-houses; and what difference exists between the melted butter of the same places and thin paste?
Why Piccadilly omnibuses always stop at the corner of Coventry Street, and then go down a miserable narrow lane, instead of the Haymarket?
Why, when you go into a linendraper's to buy a pair of white kids, you are asked, ten times out of eleven, whether you will not have straw-coloured?
Where the crowd of boys rise up from, to open the cab-door, or seize your carpet-bag, the minute you get out of a railway omnibus, none having been visible just before?
What species of position is gained from drinking champagne with the funny singers at a supper tavern, out of a tankard?
How tradesmen of vast minds contrive to put "25,000 muffs and boas!" into a house not capable of accommodating fifty?