LIFE IN LONDON, my boys, is a round of delight,
In frolics, I keep up, both the day and the night,
With my Toм and my JERRY, I try to "get best"
Of the COVES in the East---and the SWELLS at the West!
Such pals in a lark, we the Town can defy, O!
Then join me in chaunting our precious TRIO.

One notable effect of Life in London," particularly in its dramatised form must be recorded. It broke the heart of poor Billy Waters, the onelegged musical negro, who died in St. Giles's workhouse, whispering with his ebbing breath, a mild anathema, which sounded very much like: Cuss him, dam Tom-mee-Tom-mee Jerry!

Poor Billy endeavoured, up to the period of his last illness, to obtain for a wife and two children what he termed, "An honest living by scraping de cat-gut!" by which he originally collected considerable sums of money at the West-end of the town, where his ribbon-decked cocked hat and feathers, with the grin on his countenance, and sudden turn and kick out of his wooden limb, and other antics and efforts to please, excited much mirth and attention, and were well rewarded from the pockets of John Bull.

TRUE HISTORY

OF

TOM AND JERRY;

OR,

THE DAY AND NIGHT SCENES,

OF

LIFE IN LONDON

FROM THE START TO THE FINISH!

WITH A KEY TO THE PERSONS AND PLACES,
TOGETHER WITH A VOCABULARY AND GLOSSARY

OF THE

FLASH AND SLANG TERMS,

OCCURING IN THE COURSE OF THE WORK.

BY

CHARLES HINDLEY,

Editor of "The Old Book Collector's Miscellany; or, a Collection of Readable Reprints
of Literary Rarities,"" Works of John Taylor-the Water Poet," "The Roxburghe
Ballads," "The History of the Catnach Press," "The Curiosities of
Street Literature,' "The Book of Ready Made Speeches,"

"Life and Times of James Catnach, late of the
Seven Dials, Ballad Monger," "Tavern
Anecdotes and Sayings, etc.

JOSEPH ARNOLD CAVE, Esq.,

PLAYER, PLAYRIGHT,

"Nothing succeeds like success"-or "Fails like failure."
Prince Talleyrand cum Baron Nicholson !

HAT PIERCE EGAN'S LIFE IN LONDON, or TOM and
JERRY, was a success, we have plenty of printed

evidence and hearsay'! to prove. And we also know-beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the news of its metropolitan fame went forth with almost telegraphic speed throughout the provinces :-From John o'Groat's House to the Land's End! From Dan to Beersheba !-and back again! With LIFE in LONDON, its language became the language of the day; drawing-rooms were turned into chaffing cribs, and rank and beauty learned to patter flash ad nauseam.