Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 52 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 52: what you’re looking at
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# Page Description This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or tour account (page 52, titled "A MONTH's TOUR"). The text describes charitable institutions in an unspecified location: a foundling hospital where abandoned infants are cared for, nursed, and trained in useful trades; revenue from carriage licensing that supports the institution; a nearby Lunatic Hospital founded with an eleven-thousand-pound bequest from Dean Swift; and a dinner the narrator attended at an unnamed location where a facetious Mr. St——ns provided entertainment. The names and places are partially obscured or abbreviated, typical of period publishing conventions.
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s2 A MONTH’: TOUR. The nurfes are frequently -fo attached to thefe forlorn ‘babes, that they adopt them for their-own children ; . when this -does not happen, they are returned to the hof- pital, where they areinftruéted in all the uleful arts of ‘life, till they become of a proper age to be‘fent out as apprentices, The money arifing from ‘licenfing carriages, &c. is applied to the fupport of this humane.ioftitution. » Not far from hence. is:.the ,Lunatic Hofpital, to the founding of which the ce- lebrated Dean Swift.left eleven thoufand | =_— We dined cD —, where the facetious . Mr. St-—ns entertained us greatly with - | his comicbooks.com