“No! No no no no no no no!” She ran towards them,
her arms outstretched, but he blocked her. ’
‘But I have told you that your capitaine would not like it that you arrest me. "
"Your own was equally so," said Jackson ironically. Attracted by the odour of
the latter dainty, a hungry cat had contrived to scratch open the paper in which it
was wrapped, displaying the following words in large characters:—"THE
HISTORY OF THE FOUR KINGS, OR CHILD'S BEST GUIDE TO THE
GALLOWS. "
"You've arrived in the very nick of time," rejoined Jonathan; "and I'll take care
your services are not overlooked. Here the ribs of a thousand pounds beating against the Needles—
those dangerous rocks, credulity here floated, to and fro, silks, stuffs, camlets,
and velvet, without giving place to each other, according to their dignity; here
rolled so many pipes of canary, whose bungholes lying open, were so damaged
that the merchant may go hoop for his money," A less picturesque, but more
truthful, and, therefore, more melancholy description of the same scene, is
furnished by the shrewd and satirical Ned Ward, who informs us, in the
"Delectable History of Whittington's College," that "When the prisoners are
disposed to recreate themselves with walking, they go up into a spacious room,
called the Stone Hall; where, when you see them taking a turn together, it would
puzzle one to know which is the gentleman, which the mechanic, and which the
beggar, for they are all suited in the same garb of squalid poverty, making a
spectacle of more pity than executions; only to be out at the elbows is in fashion
here, and a great indecorum not to be threadbare.
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