THE CHESHIRE CHEESE.
" So far as I know, not one of Dr. Johnson's authenticated taverns 111 London survives," says a recent article by John o' London. "" The present Mitre in Mitre Court. Eleet Street, is not the tavern in which he said that a man who wants to go to bed before three in the morning is a scoundrel. His own Mitre stood °on the south side of Fleet Street itself, near Temple Bar. .Near bv stands the Cock Tavern, but Tennyson's " Cock " was on the north side ot the street on a site now overshadowed_ by a portion of the Royal Law Courts—just east. I think, of Bell Alley. " There is no actual proof that Dr. Johnson frequented the Cheshire Cheese, though this tavern and dimng-place is enshrined immutably in the minds ot Americans as his peculiar haunt. It is not so mentioned by Boswell, or by any of his contemporaries. But proot _is hardlv needed because it is much easier to believe that he knew the Cheshire Cheese than to believe that he did not.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20217, 30 March 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)
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177THE CHESHIRE CHEESE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20217, 30 March 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)
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