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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
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kpitonian mart began with the offer. * Two dirtyshirts for a clean one,—no takers; clean linen being that morn-ing at a remarkably high premium. At length, the exorbitantprice of three was offered—and accepted by all those who hadany of the demand on hand. When this was settled as far asthe negotiations could go, and the market being quite drainedof its supply, the remainder were forced to inspect the first pageof the chapter of expedients. The previously worn shirts wereexamined most scrupulously, and those that appeared to havebeen the least soiled, laid aside for a second investigation ; andat length with many appeals for advice around, the difficult se-lection is made, and then commences the arts of coaxing, torally some strength into the drooping collar, and to give someappearance of firmness to the discomfited frill. Whilst at bestone half of them are thus occupied, let us turn our attention-ta,the remainder. wiU 1 withdraw the curtain and place the picture before you ; to;i
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Page 117, Vol 2 midshipmans expedients. 117 the extreme left, in sociability of cares, two middies are seatedon one chest—one of them is cleaning his teeth, and gettinghis mouth filled with bristles for his pains, he is not in the bestof humours, for hair is not pleasant either to masticate or toswallow, and very difficult to dislodge, and his annoyance israther increased by being preached at by his brother reefer,Avho is boasting of his newly discovered faculty of spittingblacking, he expectorates and rubs, and descants, and is reallyas happy as ***** at being able to discharge so much polishingdirt from his mouth. The standing order being, that no lightsshall be used in the cockpit without they be secured in lan-terns; the consequence is, that the more battered and brokenthe lantern, the better, as there is less horn to intercept thesaffron rays of the pursers dip, which dip is seldom put inside,but generally stuck on the rim of its enjoined preserver. Letus move forward a little,

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