12/39 You won't? Well, they whipped a man this morning and he's in the pillory now, down by the market. Let's go look at him .-- Pshaw! what's the use of books! Don't you want to see the Guard turn out at noon, and hear the trumpet blow? "De Jure Maritimo, six shillings eightpence, my lad. Burnet's History and Demosthenes' Orations, two crowns, Mr.Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a great book and dear! Common Sense--and that's Tom Paine's, and you may have it for two pistareens." The boy shook his head. |