Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 71 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 71: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from "A Month's Tour," a Victorian travel narrative. The text describes the narrator's frustrating interactions with a lodger at an inn, quoting his defensive and colorful Irish expressions about providing poor dinner and being unable to procure eggs. The passage concludes with the travelers departing for Dublin, noting their route variations including a detour around Bray and passage through Lochlin's town. The page employs period typography with long 's' characters.
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A MONTHS TOWR. pe: expreffidns.and: allufions were peculiar to ~ himfelf. When we-expoftulated with him upon the badnefs of our dinner, his reply was, “ upon my fhoul it is very well you “get any at all ;—it is no fault'of mine} “for Iam only-a lodger.” When'we defited him to bring us a few. more eggs, he faid. “we might as well’ afk a Hightaiider we a pair of breeches as afk him for eggs.” ° begg’ 'd He would go to ati¢ighbout” $" sate and buy a'few—his. reply was, “ upon my fhoul T could not buy- one if Tr ate a ton of coals for it.” ~ | “3 A's we had’ ‘nothing to induce us to a ldng continuance here, we ‘made for Dublin with all poffible expedition, varying our road however, and leaving Bray a little” to” the right, paffin ng thro’ Lochlin’: s town and’ Black comicbooks.com