"He had lived in India and ...he told us this old yarn about one girl staying the night in a house of a friend, waking up to find her face wet and a man brandishing a razor over her. She screamed for help. Her friend, on rushing to her... [realized that her attacker was merely a] ...barber who had been in the habit of shaving the occupant of this room."
In the above quotation, Milly describes a story told to her by a man she met during one of her travels in 1900. This story illustrates one of the more unconventional dangers of travel. Below is a photo of a straight razor in the Eldon House collection. This one is, perhaps, similar to the razor the poor girl in this story had awoken to find perched above her neck.
George Butler & Co’s Keen Razor with quote from Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor Lost on the blade
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We acknowledge all the treaties that are specific to this area: the Two Row Wampum Belt Treaty of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy/Silver Covenant Chain; the Beaver Hunting Grounds of the Haudenosaunee NANFAN Treaty of 1701; the McKee Treaty of 1790, the London Township Treaty of 1796, the Huron Tract Treaty of 1827, with the Anishinaabeg, and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum of the Anishnaabek and Haudenosaunee.
The three Indigenous Nations that are neighbours to London are the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation; Oneida Nation of the Thames; and the Munsee-Delaware Nation who all continue to live as sovereign Nations with individual and unique languages, cultures, and customs.
