Name: Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands
Author: Charles James Lever
ISBN: 978-0530197906

Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands

By Charles James Lever 10 Sep, 2020

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Excerpt....... Old Woodcock says, that if Providence had not made him a Justice of the Peace, he’d have been a vagabond himself. No such kind interference prevailed in my case. I was a vagabond from my cradle. I never could be sent to school, alone, like other children—they always had to see me there safe, and fetch me back again. The rambling bump monopolized my whole head. I’m sure my god-father must have been the wandering Jew, or a king’s messenger. Here I am again, en route, and sorely puzzled to know whither? There’s the fellow for my trunk. “What packet, sir?” “Eh? What packet? The vessel at the Tower stairs?” “Yes, sir; there are two with the steam up, the Rotterdam and the Hamburgh.” “Which goes first?” “Why, I think the Attwood, sir.” “Well, then, shove aboard the Attwood. Where is she for?” “She’s for Rotterdam.——He’s a queer cove too,” said the fellow under his teeth, as he moved out of the room, “and don’t seem to care where he goes.” Less

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