Tawny Rachel / [Z].

  • Z.
Date:
[1815?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tawny Rachel / [Z]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - « J J ■■ —W VsX'WjyivW i A V * vy A got all her vows to Jacob ; she at once forsook an honest man whom she loved, and consented to tharry a stranger of whom she knew nothing, from & ridiculous notion that she was compelled to do so by a decree which she had it not in her power to resist. She married this Robert Price, tire strange gardener, whom she found to be very worthless, and very much in debt. He had no such thing as “ money beyond sea,” as the fortune¬ teller had told her; but alas'! he had another wife there. He got immediate possession of Sally’s twenty pounds. Rachel put in for her share, but lye refused to give her a farthing, and bid her get away, or he would have her taken up on the va¬ grant act. He soon ran away from Sally, leaving her to bewail her own weakness : for it was that indeed, and not any irresistible fate which had „ been the cause of her ruin. To complete her misery, she herself aims suspected of having stolen the silver cup which Rachel had pocketed. Her master, however, would not prosecute her,, as sjie \yas falling into a deep decline, and she died in a tew months of a broken, heart, a sad warning to all credulous girls! O 1 • Rachel, whenever she got near home, used to drop her trade of fortune-telling, and only dealt in the wares of her basket. Mr. Wilson the clergy¬ man, found her one day dealing out some very wicked ballads to some children. He went up with, a view to give her a reprim&nd ; he had no sooner 5 ^ W O i began his exhortation, than up came a constable, followed by several people. “ There she is, that is she, that is the old witch who tricked my wife out of the five guineas,” said one of them, “ Do 4-