Chapter L: M. M. R

_Breezes from Gas Works._--Why do secretaries to provincial gas companies call small pieces of coke _breezes_; and why do they by letters offer to sell "_breezes_ at tenpence _per sack_?" My residence is not far distant from the works of one of these _Æolian_ gas companies; and when the wind is in the east, I inhale _breezes_ which my senses tell me do not blow from "Araby the blest."