ISBN: 9780217448741

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... ON A KEHAKEABLE DOG. Fbom the lower regions of this establishment, comes wafted towards me, in rippling freshets of sound, softened and mellowed by divagation, a deep baying. With the utmost regularity every morning, while I am Breakfasting in Bed, just as I have begun to crunch my second slice of dry toast, I hear that baying. There is no mistaking its import. I know what it means, quite as well as I do the signification of the knocks and rings at the door about this time in the morning. For example, there is the milk, with her customary ranz des vaches--a vaccine arrangement which, I much fear, has been associated, since we have been resident in London, with the handle of the pump nearest to the dairy where the professedly lacteal fluid is concocted for metropolitan consumption. Then there is the baker, whose knock is a determined one, and who is an individual of arrogant mien, but who has been slightly less independent since the carts of the Aerated Bread Company (Limited) took to calling for orders. Between the milk and the baker, the watercressseller makes himself audible at the area-jailing, and directly afterwards the first intonation of Clo''! is heard from the street. If I draw aside the window-blind a little, and peep, I am pretty sure to see the Hebrew gentleman from Houndsditch glancing wistfully upwards, as though in meek remonstrance at the closed casement of my bower. Why does that lazy fellow persist in Breakfasting in Bed? why doesn''t he come down, like a man, and sell me three pairs of old trousers and a little veskit?--I fancy the harmless Caucasian is murmuring. Then the postman''s knock, in its sharp, imperious rat-tat, makes you start and shudder. I believe it was Mr. Howard Glover who, in conjunction with an... George Augustus Sala, Books, History, Breakfast In Bed; Or, Philosophy Between The Sheets. A Series Of Indigestible Discourses Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: J. Bradburn in 1863 in 289 pages; Subjects: English essays; History / United States / General; History / United States / State & Local / General; Literary Collections / Essays;<

ISBN: 9780217448741

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON THE PKEVA1LING MADNESS. From all that I can see, or hear, or am told, and from a little, perhaps, that I feel, I am inclined to apprehend that there is a good deal of Madness going about the world just now. If Sir Baldwin Leighton's Night Poaching Act is definitively to put down the unlicensed Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON THE PKEVA1LING MADNESS. From all that I can see, or hear, or am told, and from a little, perhaps, that I feel, I am inclined to apprehend that there is a good deal of Madness going about the world just now. If Sir Baldwin Leighton's Night Poaching Act is definitively to put down the unlicensed capture of feathered and furry game (which it will no more do than it will enable me to marry my grandmother), it should surely have contained a clause to warrant the shutting up, under the certificate of two physicians, of all the hares next March; for if they catch the epidemic which is raging among humanity, the chances are that they will go very mad indeed. This is most decidedly a mad world, my masters. Don't you think the Americans have gone mad, and that " a dark house and a whip" would be the fittest treatment for the delirium which has driven a mighty nation into the perpetration of political bankruptcy? They must be mad, only they have duplicity enough not to howl or tear their flesh, or scrabble at the gate (as King David did when he feigned madness), until they have withdrawnthemselves from public observation. In one of Mr. Dickens's earlier works there is a terrific tale of a lunatic, who so kept the secret of his insanity for very many years. lie slew his wife, and raved finely to himself when alone; but as he wore a white neckcloth, talked about the weather, and lent money at interest in polite society, he Avas accounted perfectly sane; until, as ill luck would have it, it occurred to him to brain his brother-in-law with a chair, and to avow, in a succession of short yelps, that he was raving mad; whereupon his relatives had out a commission De I/unatico against him, and locked him up, incontinent. It is a dangerous matter to meddle with your brother-in-law. As a Books, History~~General, Breakfast-In-Bed~~George-Augustus-Sala, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217448741

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... ON A KEHAKEABLE DOG. Fbom the lower regions of this establishment, comes wafted towards me, in rippling freshets of sound, softened and mellowed by divagation, a deep baying. With the utmost regularity every morning, while I am Breakfasting in Bed, just as I have begun to crunch my second slice of dry toast, I hear that baying. There is no mistaking its import. I know what it means, quite as well as I do the signification of the knocks and rings at the door about this time in the morning. For example, there is the milk, with her customary ranz des vaches--a vaccine arrangement which, I much fear, has been associated, since we have been resident in London, with the handle of the pump nearest to the dairy where the professedly lacteal fluid is concocted for metropolitan consumption. Then there is the baker, whose knock is a determined one, and who is an individual of arrogant mien, but who has been slightly less independent since the carts of the Aerated Bread Company (Limited) took to calling for orders. Between the milk and the baker, the watercressseller makes himself audible at the area-jailing, and directly afterwards the first intonation of Clo''! is heard from the street. If I draw aside the window-blind a little, and peep, I am pretty sure to see the Hebrew gentleman from Houndsditch glancing wistfully upwards, as though in meek remonstrance at the closed casement of my bower. Why does that lazy fellow persist in Breakfasting in Bed? why doesn''t he come down, like a man, and sell me three pairs of old trousers and a little veskit?--I fancy the harmless Caucasian is murmuring. Then the postman''s knock, in its sharp, imperious rat-tat, makes you start and shudder. I believe it was Mr. Howard Glover who, in conjunction with an... George Augustus Sala, Books, History, Breakfast In Bed; Or, Philosophy Between The Sheets. A Series Of Indigestible Discourses Books>History, General Books LLC<