Show A quaint old autom A london shop ny it la my duty every night to go out to the rear of the premises and fire off an old flintlock pistol abla curious custom dates back to the middle 0 tho eighteenth century our shop now in a crowded north london district was in those old days practically in the coun try and it waa the custom of the then proprietor who was a timid eccentric man to fira a pistol off every night to let tho would be burglar know ho waa armed and prepared or him thinking his custom such n good one seethe that his bhoj was never attempted ue stated in ills will that the custom should be continued which has always been carried out although of courses wo do it now merely to kap up n quaint old custom |