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to pay for it. It was as essential and as conventional as the clown's,
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Here we are again! Some surly ruffian might be moved, once in a way, to drain the bowl, fling it empty at the landlord, and bid him
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; but that was ungentlemanly, and the assignation not certain of fulfilment. Sometimes it would happen that one of these travellers going on to dance upon nothing at Tyburn would make variations upon the old theme; but nothing seems to have been quite so neat as the last remark of an atrocious villain, Tom Austin, who, when he stood with the rope round his neck, replied to the Ordinary's query if he had anything to say before he died:
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Nothing: only there's a woman yonder with some curds and whey, and I wish I could have a pennyworth of them before I am hanged, because I don't know when I shall see any again.
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BOWL.
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Bowl and threading the narrow passage of High Street, Bloomsbury, the processions, passing St. Giles's Pound, came into the
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Tyburn Road, called sometimes
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and now, and since about 1718, styled Oxford Street. Lysons, in his _Environs of London_, says the row of the first few houses on the north side of Tyburn Road westward of the Tottenham Court Road, was completed in 1729, and then it was first called Oxford Street; but he is clearly in error, for until about 1888 there remained built into the wall of No. 1, Oxford Street, on the south side, at the first-floor level, an oval tablet inscribed,
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This is Oxford Streete, 1725. When the houses were rebuilt, this simple relic disappeared. But a still earlier tablet remains to disprove Lysons. This is one built into the wall of a house at the corner of Rathbone Place, which announces
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Rathbones Place in Oxford Street 1718.