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Oyed free, so that people may be brought into the shop and possibly buy
something. All these things are attractive. But there is one thing not
yet mentioned, which is the best of all, and interesting to both boys
and girls alike, as well as to men and women. This is the Tower of
London. I am now going to imagine that you are staying with me on a
visit, and every day we will do something enjoyable, and go to see
something fresh. We could go on for days and days doing this in London,
and not come to the end of the sights. But the first thing to see, the
very first, ought to be the Tower, because it is one of the few old
buildings left in London, and there are so many stories connected with
it they would make a big fat book in themselves. On the first morning of
your visit to London you would get up in a rather excited frame of mind,
and be anxious to start off at once. That would be as well, because if
we are to go to the Tower it will take us a long time to get there.
Before the west end of London was built the Tower was in the important
part of London. All that could then be called London clustered round it.
In those days, when the country was unsettled and enemies appeared
suddenly outside a town, and might burn and destroy houses, and steal
all that they could lay hands on, it was necessary to have a wall all
round the city. This wall was very strong and high, and could be
defended by men with spears and arrows. It ran right round the city on
three sides, and on the fourth was the river. In the reign of William
the Conqueror there was no strong castle or palace for the King in
London, but only an old fortress on one side of this wall, the east
side, quite near to the river. This fortress had stood there for a long
time. No one knew when it had been built. King William ordered it to be
pulled down, and in its place he caused a strong castle to be built.
Part of the city wall was pulled down to make room for this castle, and
so began the Tower of London. If we, living in the West End, want to get
to the Tower, we must take an omnibus or train and go right through the
City until, at the place where