Master Humphrey's clock (1840) (14579180830)

Identifier: masterhumphreysc02dick (find matches)
Title: Master Humphrey's clock
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, ill Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, ill
Subjects: Gordon Riots, 1780
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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BARNABY RUDGE. CHAPTER THE FIRST,the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of EppingForest, at a distance of about twelve mdes from London-mea „r ng from the Standard in CornhiU or rather from theTpot on or near to ^vhich the Standard used to bo m days ofvore-a house of puWio entertainment called the Maypolerch Lt was demonstrated to all such t-*- - J™^^^neither read nor write (and s>xty-s,x years ago a v^tnumber both of travellers and stay-at-homes were m th,scondition) by the emblcni reared on the roads.de oveigat tl house, which, if not of those goodly proport.onsthat Maypoles were wont to present n. o den t.mes, was afair young ash, thirty feet in height, and stra>ght as anyarrow that ever English yeoman drew.^^».^-^- The Maypole-by which term from henceforth .s meant- - ...»;^;-:»- in» J^ , J 1^ ,,,a8 an old building, with more the house, and not its sign—tne iuayiioi^ , ,„ „ „,„.„ dav • liu-c .able end; than a lazy man would care to count on a sunny