Description - The History of Pompey the Little or the Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog by Francis Coventry
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1799 edition. Excerpt: ...Sir, I was jogging on contentedly at my ease; when turning round on a sudden, I saw this tremendous grazier, arid two or three more bloody minded sellows, that seemed each as big as a giant, in full pursuit of me. Away I dashed through thick ami thin, as if the devil drove; but being wretchedly 'mounted, I was surrounded, apprehended, carried be 'fore that insernal Sir Thomas Deveil, and he. coin'mitted me. 'Now I was in a sweet condition! This was a charm'ing revolution in my lise! Newgate, and the prospect ot a gallows, furnish a man with very agreeable re 'flections. O that cursed Old Bailey! I shall never. 'torget the sentence which the hum-drum son of a whore 'ot a judge passed upon me!--" You shall hang till you "are dead, dead, dead 1" Faith, I was more than half dead with hearing it; and in that plight I was drag'ged back to my prison!' Excellent 'Excellent lodging in the condemned hole! Pretty 'mulic the depth-wari-ant rings in a man's ears! But, as good-luck would have it, while I was lexpecting every hour to be tucked up, his majesty, (G--d bleis 'him) took pity on me the very day before execution, 'and sent me a reprieve for transportation. To describe the transport I selt at this moment would be impossible! 'I was half mad with joy; and, instead of reflecting 'that I.was going to slavery, fancied myself going to 'Heaven. The being ssiipped osf for Jamaica was so much better a voyage, I thought, than serrying over that fame river Styx with old GafFar Charon, that I never once troubled myself about what I was to susfer when I got thither. 'Not to be tedious, (for Iliate a long story) to Jamaica I went, with a full resolution of making my escape by the sirst opportunity; which I very...
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Histoire Du Petit Pomp�e, Ou La Vie Et Les Aventures d'Un Chien de Dame, Imit�e de l'Anglois. Par J. H. D. B****.
The History of Pompey the Little, Or, the Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog.
