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Tom and Jerry Visiting a "Whistling Shop", by George Cruikshank: 1821

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Tom and Jerry Visiting a Whistling Shop G. Cruikshank 1821
Tom and Jerry Visiting a "Whistling Shop", by George Cruikshank: 1821

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A "whistling shop" is a pub located in a prison, such as Dicken's "Marshalsea". The whistling shop sells illicit drinks. The scene above, is the Fleet Street Debtor's prison. Galleys and hulks had their whistling shops, too.

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