Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 27 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 27: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This is a page of running prose (page 27) from what appears to be a serialized travel narrative titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes passengers aboard a ship suffering from seasickness, with all except one Mr. W—— confined to their cabins. It details the "profound silence" broken only by the stomach disturbances of the afflicted passengers until Tuesday morning, when news that the ship was traveling quickly prompted the officers and Jesuits to begin eating. The tone is darkly humorous and descriptive of maritime discomfort, typical of Victorian popular serial fiction.
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A MONTH’s TOUR, 27 ver obferved to fwear an oath, which re- | fteéts no imall honour upon him and his wen. All the paffengers were fea-fick, fave Mr. W--—, who continued upon deck ull nine P. M. Al the reft configned themfelves to their beds very early, anda profound filence, fave where filence yield- ed to the eructations of qualmith ftomachs, revgned in the cabin till fix o'clock: on. Tuefday morning. On the twenty-third ,when the pleafing news was brought to the fickly inhabitants of the cabin, that the fhip was making ‘way very faft, the officers and Jefuits be- mm! to regale their empty ftomachs with Dz Sto ed comicbooks.com