text:  You have only to sit at your window for a given amount of hours once a-week and note down the number of the cabs and carts which jolt and jingle to the Broomielaw; or if you like that better to ascertain the quality of the soil three feet beneath your own wine-cellar; and you are booked for a month's residence in London free quarters in a first-rate hotel five guineas a-day and all expenses paid