Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 95 of 120
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or journal titled "A Month's Tour" (page 963). The text describes the narrator's social activities on the eighth and ninth of an unspecified month: visiting Mr. C—'s tavern for dining, spending an afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. P—, walking to Ranelagh to observe fireworks and a beautiful temple, and experiencing music performed by musicians placed in the branches of a garden tree. The passage concludes mid-sentence on the ninth day. The prose is written in eighteenth-century style spelling and typography.
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