‘Martha was my wet-nurse? But she is unmarried. " "Lord!—think of having sharks for neighbours? Every morning I'll take a dip into the lagoon. 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. He had been back for two weeks during some pleasant weather in July. The crown has passed from the brow of one monarch to that of another. PELLISSIER. “You do not know what you say. This last operation was so fatiguing, that for a short time he was obliged to pause to recover the use of his fingers. “That,” she answered, “is far easier to believe. ” And to that, through vast rhetorical meanderings, she clung. “Have to take your turn,” he remarked laconically. "I allude to an individual, who has since acquired an infamous notoriety as a thief-taker; but who, in those days, was himself the associate of thieves. Much has been advanced by modern writers respecting the demoralising effect of prison society; and it has been asserted, that a youth once confined in Newgate, is certain to come out a confirmed thief. Was there ever such madness?” “I am afraid that I don’t understand,” Ennison answered.
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