The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 51: what you’re looking at

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43 BOOK II. TWO CENTURIES AFTER. CHAPTER I. RUMOURS OF THE APPARITION. ky OW comes it, man, that thy friend Jack Walton is never with thee now? The tavern misses him; his cheery face was always velcome ; and when I think of it, thou art thyseli fut sorry company, nowadays.”’ The jolly, red-faced host of the ‘‘ Mitre”’ liked not e dull and quiet guest ; good food and drink, he used to say, were wasted when they loosened not the tongue in anecdote or song. ‘‘ lack has gone, and I'll soon follow him,’’ was the dismal answer. ‘““Ye mean to tell me that Jack the fearless, the mighty toper, the jolly drunken rogue, has turned craven and thrown up his employ ?”’ ‘Landlord, ye have hit it; the others are going too, and if ye take my advice ye’ll shift the ‘ Mitre’ to another place.” “Fool, take thy womanish fears “9 others; the cS m GOmMmlichboo (Elo)