Penny Dreadfuls, 1866 · page 165 of 400
Black Bess; or, the Knight of the Road — page 165: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of This Page This page from a penny dreadful titled *The Knight of the Bead* combines an illustration with running prose text. The engraving depicts "The Assassination in the Wood at Wilsing Cross"—a nighttime woodland scene showing figures in period dress, with one appearing to attack another beneath a full moon. Below the illustration, the readable text shows dialogue between characters including an old man and someone named Tom, discussing a murder witnessed "a short time ago" and debating the narrator's duty regarding what he has seen. The page costs one halfpenny and is numbered 193 by "Black Bess," indicating this is mid-serialization of a sensational crime narrative.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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