Only an old chair : its story as taken down in choice shorthand and done into English / by D.R.A.G.M. [i.e. Robert Anstruther Goodsir].

  • Goodsir, Robert Anstruther
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Only an old chair : its story as taken down in choice shorthand and done into English / by D.R.A.G.M. [i.e. Robert Anstruther Goodsir]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    house. Sir Joseph took it all in a vastly good humoured way, for said he—‘ Pooh ! what does it matter ? does not this paltry Pasquino abuse the good King more scurrilously than he does the President of the Royal Society.’ And then what rare good times we had at pleasant Earl’s Court, out Kensington way, amono^st the fields and srardens and hedp-erows, where the o^rave o^entlemen would come to see us o o on summer Sundays also, as well as on certain week nights, the ladies of quality and gay beaux, and modish macaronis, to pay their respects to clever Mistress Hunter who wrote such beautiful verses, but of these I will tell you forthwith. Here our master had all sorts of wild beasts, whose roaring frightened us sadly. He was never weary of v/atching them, and writing about them when he could get away from town. But he used to frighten his wife sadly, by being over venturesome with them. Here too he had many beehives, and would be hours looking at them to learn their ways. Often too, at pleasant Earl’s Court, horrid villainous smells would come
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