 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, 1 wa* trudging through Richmond, in my blue smock frock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eye fell upon a little book, iu a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, " TAI.E OP A TUB ; PRICE 3d." The title... | |
 | William Cobbett - Authors - 1835 - 456 pages
...Richmond, in my blue smock frock and my red garters tied under my knees, when staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window,...outside of which was written, ' Tale of a Tub ; price three-pence.' The title was so odd, that my curiosity was excited. I had the threepence, but then I... | |
 | William Cobbett - Authors, English - 1835 - 230 pages
...which I had on the road, and one halfpenny that I had lost somehow or other, left three-pence in my pocket ; with this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond, in my blue smock frock and my red garters tied under my knees, when staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little... | |
 | William Cobbett - Authors, English - 1835 - 236 pages
...which I had on the road, and one halfpenny that I had lost somehow or other, left three-pence in my pocket ; with this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond, in my blue smock frock and my red garters tied under my knees, when staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 854 pages
...walked off, and towards the evening of a day in June reached Richmond with threepence in his pocket. I was trudging through Richmond, in my blue smock-frock...garters tied under my knees, when staring about me my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written ' Tale of... | |
 | 1870 - 846 pages
...which I had on the ro.nl, and one halfpenny that I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smock-frock, and niy red gaiters tied under my knees, when staring about me, my eye fell upon a little book in a bookseller's... | |
 | George W. Johnson - 1850 - 434 pages
...Richmond, in my blue smock frock and my red mien tied under my knees, when staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window,...outside of which was written, 'Tale of a Tub; price three-pence.' The title was so odd, that my curiosity was excited. I had the three-pence, but then... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 1482 pages
...which I had on the road, and a half-penny which I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging...smock-frock and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staringabout me, my eye fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 1454 pages
...beer which I had on the road, and a halfpenny which I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smock frock, and my red gaiters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eye fell upon a little... | |
 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...account of his first meeting with it: "When a poor boy of eleven years old, with threepence in my pocket for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond, in my blue smockfrock, and with red garters tied outside under my knees, when I perceived in a bookseller's window a little book... | |
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I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smockfrock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eye fell upon a little book in a bookseller's... 
