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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, No Throughfare, The Perils of Certain English Prisoners: In One Volume (Classic Reprint)
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices No Throughfare The Perils of Certain English Prisoners In One Volume - Classic Reprint Author:Charles Dickens IN the autumn month of S~ptembcr, eighteen hundled and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two iJle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it bad brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highly meritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute, though, it must be ... more »acknowledged, not quite so highly esteemed in the City as she mjght be. This is the more remarkable, as there is nothing against the respectable lady in that quarter, but quite the contrary j her family having rendered eminent service to many famous citizens of Loudon. It may be sufficient to Dame Sir Villiam Valworth, Lord Mayor under King Richard II., at the time of 'Vat Tyler's insurrection, and Sir Richard vlhittillgton: which latter distinguished man and magistrate was doubtless indebted to the lady's family for the gift of his celebrated cat. There is also strong reason to suppose that they rang the Highgate bells f
Table of Contents
OONTENTS; THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES; CHAPTER I; " II; III; " IV ; " v ?; NO THOROUGHFARE; THE OVERTURE; ACT I-THE CURTAIN RISES; " ENTER THE HOUSEKEEPER ?; " THE HOUSEKEEPER SPEAKS ?; " NEW CHARACTERS ON THE SCENE; " EXIT WILDING ? ? ?; PAGE; 3; 20; 50; 66; 87; 10'7; 113; 120; 124; 132; 147 NO THOROUGHFARE-continued; ACT II-VENDALE lIAKES LOVE; " VEKDALE MAKES :mSCHIEF; ACT III-IN THE VALLEY; ON THE lIOUXTAIN; ACT IY-THE CLOCK-LOCK; " OBENREIZER'S nCTORY; THE CURTAIN FALLS; THE PERILS OJ!" CERTAIN ENGLISH; PRISONERS; CHAPTER I-THE ISLAND OF SILVER-STORE; " n-THE PRISON IN THE WOODS; " IlI-THE RAFTS ON THE RIVEn ;
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