at the Eagle (_S.B.C._ 4) accompanied a comic song on the
organ--and such an organ!

Miss J'mima Ivins's friend's young man whispered it
had cost 'four hundred pound,' which Mr. Samuel Wilkins
said was 'not dear neither.'

The singer was probably either Howell or Glindon. Dickens
appears to have visited the Eagle Tavern in 1835 or 1836. It
was then a notable place of entertainment consisting of gardens
with an orchestra, and the 'Grecian Saloon,' which was furnished
with an organ and a 'self-acting piano.' Here concerts were
given every evening, which in Lent took a sacred turn, and
consisted of selections from Handel and Mozart. In 1837 the
organ was removed, and a new one erected by Parsons.

The Eagle gained a wide reputation through its being introduced
into a once popular song.

Up and down the City Road,
In and out the Eagle,
That's the way the money goes,
Pop goes the weasel.

This verse was subsequently modified (for nursery purposes)
thus:

Half a pound of tuppenny rice,
Half a pound of treacle,
That's the way the money goes,[9]