Identifier: McGillLibrary-PN970_H685_L3_1841-1193 (find matches)
Title: Lame Jemmy
Year: 1841 (1840s)
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Subjects: People with disabilities -- Juvenile literature. Lameness in literature -- Juvenile literature. Chapbooks -- Specimens. Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century McGill University Library Digitized Title McGill Library's Chapbook Collection People with disabilities Lameness in literature Chapbooks
Publisher: London : Printed for Houlston and Co., 65, Paternoster-Row
Contributing Library: McGill University Library

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and perseverance, a tolerable basket-maker. He had six small baskets,or hampers, finished, and ready forsale, hid up in a thick elder tree bythe brook. The next day was market-day,and he wished to take his baskets LAME JEMMY. H to L to try to sell them. Very early in the morning did he arise,and with a heart beating with joy did he depart for L , with his baskets slung across his back. Itwas well for Jem that he was soonovertaken by Thomas Lister thefarmer, with his cart; for it wouldnot have been possible that he could have got to L on his crutches, with all his baskets at hisback. Why, Jemmy, art going totown, lad? (( Ay, Sir, said Jemmy. ^Why, bless thee, lad! thoultnever do that on thy wooden stumps,I reckon? Come, get up into thcart. Jem was very glad to be 12 LAME JEMMY. •Jftr^,
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seated in the cai% for he wasalready beginning to be tired. Heplaced his baskets beside him.^^What! art going to sell these herebaskets, Jemmy ? If I can. Sir/ said Jem, sor-rowfully, trying to twist the basket LAME JEMMY. 13 back into proper shape which Tho-mas had pulled quite crooked. ^I reckon that wont be so easy,Jem/ said Thomas, laughing.Why, theyll not stand on theirbottom, nor top, nor side, nor noway! Howsomever, added he,good-naturedly, theres many foolsin th world, they say; so I hopethoult find one. Jemmy: and, anyway, Ill give thee a lift home in thcart, and thy wiskets too, if theellcome to the Red Lion at fiveoclock. When Jem got into the market-place with his baskets, he felt quitebewildered, and did not know whatto do. The noise and the confusion 14 LAME JEMMY.

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