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Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities

Surtees, Robert Smith

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ISBN10: 1150071109
ISBN13: 9781150071102
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.37 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...by a flowing white linen kilt, commonly called a shirt, in the four corners of which were knotted a few small pebbles--producing, with the Hessian boots and one thing and another, the most laughable figure imaginable. The blood of the Jorrockses was up, however, and throwing his hands in the air, he thus delivered himself. 'Oh, gentlemen! gentlemen!--here's a lamentable occurrence--a terrible disaster--oh dear! oh dear!--I never thought I should come to this. You know, James Green, ' appealing to Jemmy, 'that I never was the man to raise a blush on the cheek of modesty; I have always said that want of decency is want of sense, and see how I am rewarded! Oh dear! oh dear! that I should ever have trusted my pantaloons out of my sight.' While all this, which was the work of a moment, was going forward, the mob, which had been shut out at the side door on Jorrocks's entry, had got round to the coffee-room window, and were all wedging their faces in to have a sight of him. It was principally composed of children, who kept up the most discordant yells, mingled with shouts of 'there's old cutty shirt!'--' who's got your breeches, old cock?'--' make a scramble!'--' turn him out for L another hunt!'--'turn him out again!'--until, fearing for the respectability of his house, the landlord persuaded Mr. Jorrocks to retire into the bar to state his grievances. It then appeared that, having travelled along the coast as far as the first Preventive stationhouse on the Ramsgate side of Margate, the grocer had thought it a convenient place for performing his intended ablutions, and, accordingly, proceeded to do what all people of either sex agree upon in such cases--namely, to divest himself of his garments; but before he completed the ceremony, observing some...

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