A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging; . he slip; he would not stay an hour in Sherborne—the reasonof this is obvious ; so you see, in striving to escape the whirlpool of Charybdis,I struck upon the rocks of Scylla. And now I must close my epistle : farewell,my valued friend, for the present, and believe me to remain, with the mostsincere regard and respect, Yours faithfully, George Atkins Brine. —Davis is become an itinerant quack doctor, and has a hopeful shootwith him (a son of the Emerald Isle), apparently about 16 or 17. 1 Brines prophetic instincts of a flagella
A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging; . he slip; he would not stay an hour in Sherborne—the reasonof this is obvious ; so you see, in striving to escape the whirlpool of Charybdis,I struck upon the rocks of Scylla. And now I must close my epistle : farewell,my valued friend, for the present, and believe me to remain, with the mostsincere regard and respect, Yours faithfully, George Atkins Brine. —Davis is become an itinerant quack doctor, and has a hopeful shootwith him (a son of the Emerald Isle), apparently about 16 or 17. 1 Brines prophetic instincts of a flagellation were subsequently fully realised. 2 Mr. Aldous and the father of Master Robert England were sub-contractorson the Great Western Railway, then in course of construction near Edmunds was a miller there. His copper-coloured majesty wassome time afterwards an inmate of the Union with Brine. While there theyindulged in a fight in which they made scarecrows of one another, and were asa consequence brought before the Board for AND BEGGARS AND BEGGING. 641 Sherborne : July 3, 1871. Honoured Sir,—Apologising for not having replied to your courteous noteearlier, I beg to answer some of Mr. Ribton-Turners inquiries respecting the first place, Mr. Kibton-Turner desires to know what induced me to adoptsuch a mode of, livelihood ; 2ndly, how I have supported myself in my wan-derings ; 3rdly, the casual wards I have visited and my opinion of them ; and,4thly, the gaols in which I have been incarcerated, with the cause of theseincarcerations. Now, in reply to the first question, I left Sherborne to seekemployment at my trade (that of a butcher), and not succeeding for a time,I soon discovered that more money could be got without work than withit. What knowledge I lacked was soon instilled into my mind by professionalvagrants. 2ndly. How I have supported myself during my wanderings ] Now, Imean to make a clean breast of it; I will candidly declare
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