Another arrival from south of the Soochow Creek is the Broadway Reed Shop which gallantly started life anew in the rarefied atmosphere of Bubbling Well, just before you get to the Race Course.
Here are carved chests lined with camphor-wood—ideal for receiving those summer woollies so comforting at times, but which the moths do enjoy if you leave them in a drawer. Or, it you are going on holiday, you can lift the lid and drop into them anything that you don't quite know what to do with, and they will guard them for you like watch-dogs till your return
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.