[Picture: The News Boy and Flying Pieman]
“Great News! Great News!” “All Hot! Smoking Hot!” These are two busy
men, indeed; one cries food for the mind, and the other food for the
body. Neither of these tradesmen keep long in one place. The news-boy
would be very glad to have a hot plumcake, but he has not time to eat it;
nor will the pieman wait to hear what the news is. So that they are not
only _busy men_, but what is very different, _men of business_. They are
passing by _The Obelisk_, in Fleet Street, built by the City of London,
on the spot which was once the centre of Fleet Ditch, which flowed as
high as Holborn Bridge, under that part which Fleet Market is now built
upon.