The Ingoldsby legends : or, Mirth and marvels . delivered according to the direction;but somehow the noble-looking profiles which he has recentlyexecuted of the Kemble family put me a little out of conceitof my own; while the undisguised amusement which my Mephistopheles eyebrow, as he termed it, aifforded him inthe full face, induced me to lay aside the design. Besides,my dear sir, since, as has laeen well observed, there never wasa married man yet who had not somebody remarkably likehim walking about town, it is a thousand to one but my lin-eaments might after all, out of sheer perverseness,
The Ingoldsby legends : or, Mirth and marvels . delivered according to the direction;but somehow the noble-looking profiles which he has recentlyexecuted of the Kemble family put me a little out of conceitof my own; while the undisguised amusement which my Mephistopheles eyebrow, as he termed it, aifforded him inthe full face, induced me to lay aside the design. Besides,my dear sir, since, as has laeen well observed, there never wasa married man yet who had not somebody remarkably likehim walking about town, it is a thousand to one but my lin-eaments might after all, out of sheer perverseness, be ascribed * A reading which seems most unaccountably to have escaped the researches of allmodern Shakspeareans, includipg the rival editors of the new and illustrated versions. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. xi to any body rather than to the real owner. I have thereforesent you, instead thereof, a fair sketch of Tappington, takenfrom the Folkestone road (I tore it last night out of JuliaSimpkinsons album): get Gilks to make a woodcut of And now, if any miscreant (I use the word only in its primaryand Pickwickian sense of Unbeliever) ventures to throwany further doubt upon the matter, why, as Jack Cades friendsays in the play, There are the chimneys in my fathers house,and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it! Why, very well then—we hope here be truths!Heaven be with you, my dear sir!—I was getting a littleexcited; but you, who are mild as the milk that dews the softwhisker of the new-weaned kitten, will forgive me when, wipingaway the nascent moisture from my brow, I pull in, andsubscribe myself, Yours quite as much as his own, THOMAS Evekard, Feb. 2, 1848. CONTENTS. dFirst 5cn>s. PAGE The Spectre of Tappington 17 The Nukses Story—The Hand op Glory 44 Patty Morgan the Milkmaids Story—Look at the Clock 51 Gray Dolphin 59 The Ghost 79 The Cynotaph 88 Mrs. Botherbys Story—The Leech of Folkestone . 94 Legend of Hamilton Tighe 121
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