I am an emet, and I live on the banks of the river Thames, in Surrey. I am a long way

I am an emet, and I live on the banks of the river Thames, in Surrey. I am a long way from London, but I can see the great city very plainly, in clear weather, and I can hear the sound of its emetics, in an easterly wind. I am sometimes visited by five or six thousand sportsmen in a summer day, and my average annual produce is estimated at fifteen thousand calves' heads. I am a very ancient emet, for I can trace my first connection with the business, to the year 1610, and, in 1630, I was made to receive an additional ten thousand heads, in consequence of an order from France. In 1660, my limits were enlarged, to accommodate twenty thousand additional emetics, and, in