Presently he came back again and the last T saw of the performance was when he waddied round the corner out of sight. Presumably he flew off elsewhere soon after this, for the noises ceased, Yesterday the performance closed by both the magpie and the shrike flying up almost straight for the window from which, was looking down at them. The magpie saw me and went on upward over.the roof. The shrike did. not These are more or less random extracts from the calendar of Lon~ don's traffic and they are sufficient, perhaps, to show some of the more Salient ' developments from the ancient to the modern mode. Nowadays, escalators, mechanical
machinery for speeding up and clerks, the other saving labour, have greatly con~ tributed towards the efficiency and. expeditious handling of the daily. streams of traffic necessitated by London's business and social re~
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