The Green Man Tavern, in Euston Road, London, has now been rebuilt. It was widely known in the eighteenth century as the Farthing Pie House. It was so called from the fact that its proprietor, a man named Price, used to buy up scraps of mutton from the butchers, convert them into small patties, and retail them to his poorer cus tomers at a farthing apiece. Both Defoe and Pope refer to the Farthing Pie House. Price was a noted performer with the rolling-pin and salt-box. The box, which was of wood, was beaten with the rolling-pin like a drum, so as to give forth a succession of musical sounds.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18889, 12 October 1929, Page 22 (Supplement)
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