Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 76 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 76: what you’re looking at
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# Page Description This is a page of running prose from a Victorian serialized narrative, numbered page 76, titled "A MONTH'S TOUR." The text describes a tour of Dublin's suburbs on the third day of travel, where the narrator criticizes the poor conditions of the area—low, thatched cabins inhabited by people in rags. The passage sarcastically references "Mr. Twifs" (likely Dickens's *Pickwick Papers* character) and his supposed observations of poverty and filth during travels through Portugal and Ireland. The text employs period typography including the long 's' character (ſ).
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“6 A MONTH TOUR. On the third, which was a charming morning, we were employed in viewing very delightful fcenes. We went out of -the city by the great north road. The fuburbs of Dublin are certainly deferving of the keen fatire of Mr. Twifs. The buildings are low, beggarly cabins, thatch’d with ftray;, and very frequently have no chimnies. They are tnhabited by crea- tures clad in rags and covered with filth ; fhoals of whom fat bafking in the fun, with- out any other employment than the ele- gant amufement of clearing each other of vermin; all the different methods of per- forming which Mr. Twifs feems to have obferved with peculiar pleafure, as well as accuracy, in the courfe of his travels thro’ Portugal and Ireland. W hen comicbooks.com