Chapter 3

EXCURSIONS FROM LONDON.

Strange ways.--"The bears that went over to Charlestown."--The delights of a runaway without its dangers.--Flower show at the Crystal Palace.--Whit-Monday at Hampton Court.--A queen baby.--"But the carpets?"--Poor Nell Gwynne.--Vandyck faces.--Royal beds.--Lunch at the King's Arms.--O Music, how many murders have been committed in thy name!--Queen Victoria's home at Windsor.--A new "house that Jack built."--The Round Tower.--Stoke Pogis.--Frogmore.--The Knights of the Garter.--The queen's gallery.--The queen's plate.--The royal mews.--The wicker baby-wagons.--The state equipages. 43