The Library of fiction - or, Family story-teller, consisting of original tales, essays, and sketches of character (1836) (14786153103)

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Title: The Library of fiction : or, Family story-teller, consisting of original tales, essays, and sketches of character

Year: 1836 (1830s)

Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Tugg's at Ramsgate Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Little talk about spring and the sweeps

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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall

Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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FaAe205. Vol. 2 M. P. ; OR, THE UNDERTAKER. 207 Shame ! shame! resounded from every corner of themarket. Down with the Phippses ! Chair him ! Chair him !* A shutter was instantly procured, upon which the unfortunateundertaker was hoisted before he could utter even an expostula-tion. For some minutes he managed to sit upright. But asailor who had the honour of shouldering one corner of hisvehicle happened, as he said, to give too much heel to star-board, and poor Nick was thrown flat on his back ! Thus hearrived upon the grand scene of action, more like the victim ofone of his own hearses, than a chaired candidate. On the arrival of this singular cortege at the hustings, Mr.Phipps—who was lecturing the mob—was completely over-whelmed by the mixture of cheers and hisses by which the pro-cession was hailed. The candidates rhetoric was completelylost upon the noisy multitude. Action, action, action—as De-mosthenes has it—was the only resource left to him. He there-fore availed him

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