This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...And so saying, he walked off with his bad bargain, determined to make the best of it as time and chance might serve. THE FACT IS Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pounds. Ay, marry, Sir John;--the which I beseech you to let me have home with me. That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Shahspeure. A Professional ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...And so saying, he walked off with his bad bargain, determined to make the best of it as time and chance might serve. THE FACT IS Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pounds. Ay, marry, Sir John;--the which I beseech you to let me have home with me. That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Shahspeure. A Professional gentleman, of Cambro-British extraction, and very lordly bearing, occupying a very pleasant set of chambers, in the Temple, had the misfortune to be brought before the magistrate for horsewhipping a milkman. The milkman--a poor fustian-jacketed, blue-aproned, muddy-booted, smooth-pated, simple-looking, quietspoken, young man, modestly approached the magisterial table, and said--' I am a milkman, please your worship--'. 'The fact is, Mister Magistrate," said the professional gentleman, who was lounging with one elbow on the table, quite at home, as it were--' the fact is, Mister Magistrate, I admit having assaulted this man; and therefore, I should presume, nothing more need be said about the matter until we come to the Sessions?' The magistrate said he had rather hear the complainant's own story, for it might be there was not sufficient cause for going to the Sessions at all. Then the milkman began his story again, with 'please your worship, . I am a milkman, ' but the thread of his discourse was so repeatedly snapped short by the professional gentleman, with his 'the fact is, ' that we must content ourselves with giving what the learned call a synoptical review of it, otherwise we shall be wasting time, ink, and paper, without making the matter understood. The fact is, then, that the professional gentleman and the milkman were both natives of that corner of these realms which has always been famous for toasted cheese, goats' milk, leeks, and cloud-...
Read Less
Add this copy of More Mornings at Bow Street: a New Collection of to cart. $44.29, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by Gale Ncco, Print Editions.
Add this copy of More Mornings at Bow Street. : a New Collection of to cart. $52.29, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Kessinger Publishing.
Add this copy of More Mornings at Bow Street. : a New Collection of to cart. $54.95, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing.
Add this copy of More Mornings at Bow Street: a New Collection of to cart. $59.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by Gale Ncco, Print Editions.
All Editions of More Mornings at Bow Street: A New Collection of Humorous and Entertaining Reports: By John Wight, of the Morning Herald; With Twenty-Five ...