Penny Dreadfuls, 1867 · page 165 of 300
Roving Jack, The Pirate Hunter — page 165: what you’re looking at
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This is an interior page from a Victorian penny dreadful titled "Roving Jack, the Pirate Hunter." It features a wood-engraved illustration depicting "Dick Turpin's Attack on the Traveller" showing several figures in period dress, with one man appearing to be attacked or threatened. Below the illustration runs Chapter LXXXY, "The Theft in the Waggon," which describes a landlord's house visit and dialogue between two men (Roger and a sailor) discussing acquiring supplies, a bottle of rum, and the sailor's romantic entanglements with a woman named Nelly. The page mixes illustration with serialized narrative text.
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= ————— _ ‘ROVING JACK, THE PIRATE HUN — es TER. Fn ieee I} pen i —S— | f -<—.— So ceaky 's DICK TURPIN’S ATTACK ON THE TRAVELLER. CHAPTER LXXXY “‘ Avast, there, avast,” replied the seaman, “ not THE THEFT IN THE WAGGON | a word against the fair sex. That yarn I spun you was the folly of a boy ; I thought I loved then, but No sooner had the landlord entered his house than | now——’’ Roger gave his companion a knowing wink, “Hh, caught again ?” “Tf he won’t supply us,”’ said he, ‘* [think I know * Aye, messmate, and brought to by the tightest a party that can.” | frigate that ever skimmed the earth’s ocean,” The speaker drew a bottle from his pocket. “ What’s her name ?” “Look here, we shan’t run aground, it’s real ‘* Nelly. 74 Jamaica,” ‘“‘Ts she pretty ?” The only answer the ‘sailor made to the remark ‘‘T believe you; you never saw so much bone was by taking the bottle produced into his hand | and flesh put so well together,” and swallowing a portion of its contents, “T think I see her now,” After a second draught, he pronounced it to be ‘‘And when she sees me there'll be a salute; excellent rum, | she’ll fling herself into my arms—not with asister’s - “JT can’t help thinking of your adventure in embrace, no, but with a true woman’s coil, when Wapping,” said’ Roger; ‘it only shows you what | her arms are firm and her heart warm.” 10 scrapes these women lead us into,” ) No. 24. EoOmichbooksreo