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Trying To Change A Sovereign.
TRYING TO CHANGE A SOVEREIGN .
BY BEO . S . rOVNTEE , P .. A 1 . AND TEGAS . BURGOTNJ 3 , NO . 902 ; P . M . ATHEJTJEUM , NO . 1491 ESSAY THE SECOND . [ AnnBBSS BY THE AUTHOR TO THIS HEADER . —The Kev . Baronet , who appears to hare succeeded tho lato Earl of Aldborough as a giver of testimonials , -writes , not unequivocally , of a certain lvinc , " I have tried your sherry , and I never tasted anything like it ! " Whatever the merits or demerits of the following contribution to the history of countryI am
my , confident , dear reader , that when yon have perused it yon will unhesitatingly pronounce that yon . never read anything like it . ] PART I . * ' Another way . "—Mrs . Gtasse ' s Cookery Book . TRANSACTIONS AVITH TILE " LONG " EIBM OF CATUSBY & Co . ( LIMITED )
N . S . —AU anachronistic rights strictly reserved . " I sing a doleful tragedy ; Gny Eawkes that prince of sinisters ,. Who once blow up the House of Lords , the King , and all his Ministers : That is , he would have blown them up , and they'd have all been cindered , • Or seriously scorched , at least , if he had not been hindered . ( Chorus ) " Bow , wow , wow ! Eol de roll de iddy doll ; bow , wow , wow !"
" He straightway came from Lambeth side , and wished the State was undone ; And crossing over Vauxhall Bridge by that way entered London -. That is , he would have come that way to perpetrate his guilt , sirs ; But a little thing prevented him , tho bridge it wasn't built , sirs . " ( Chorus ) " Bow , AVOW , WOW ! Eol / le roll de iddy doll ; bow , wow , wow ! "
— —Old Ballad . " Please to remember , Tho fifth of November ,. Gnnpoivder treason and plot ; I see no reason AVhy Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot . " —Popular ioggrel .
, CHAPTER I . fZS THE JUDKBACK BANK . IsST Avas a dull , gloomy , foggy Noj ^| vember-like morning in London , |& F altbougb it was in realit y tbe
S / jg §! $ » beginning of March , in the tip * year 1604-5 , when the Avidow | j | Critehett stood in Legality Lane ffi awaiting the opening of the *^ doors of the Jerkback Bank ; for she held a cheque drawn upon that establishment for the sum of seven
pounds ten shillings , ancl she sorely needed the coin . Now , it was tbe custom of banking officials in those days to receive the negociable instrument from the payee and give a written acknowledgment in return . The bearer then joined a long queue of expec
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Trying To Change A Sovereign.
TRYING TO CHANGE A SOVEREIGN .
BY BEO . S . rOVNTEE , P .. A 1 . AND TEGAS . BURGOTNJ 3 , NO . 902 ; P . M . ATHEJTJEUM , NO . 1491 ESSAY THE SECOND . [ AnnBBSS BY THE AUTHOR TO THIS HEADER . —The Kev . Baronet , who appears to hare succeeded tho lato Earl of Aldborough as a giver of testimonials , -writes , not unequivocally , of a certain lvinc , " I have tried your sherry , and I never tasted anything like it ! " Whatever the merits or demerits of the following contribution to the history of countryI am
my , confident , dear reader , that when yon have perused it yon will unhesitatingly pronounce that yon . never read anything like it . ] PART I . * ' Another way . "—Mrs . Gtasse ' s Cookery Book . TRANSACTIONS AVITH TILE " LONG " EIBM OF CATUSBY & Co . ( LIMITED )
N . S . —AU anachronistic rights strictly reserved . " I sing a doleful tragedy ; Gny Eawkes that prince of sinisters ,. Who once blow up the House of Lords , the King , and all his Ministers : That is , he would have blown them up , and they'd have all been cindered , • Or seriously scorched , at least , if he had not been hindered . ( Chorus ) " Bow , wow , wow ! Eol de roll de iddy doll ; bow , wow , wow !"
" He straightway came from Lambeth side , and wished the State was undone ; And crossing over Vauxhall Bridge by that way entered London -. That is , he would have come that way to perpetrate his guilt , sirs ; But a little thing prevented him , tho bridge it wasn't built , sirs . " ( Chorus ) " Bow , AVOW , WOW ! Eol / le roll de iddy doll ; bow , wow , wow ! "
— —Old Ballad . " Please to remember , Tho fifth of November ,. Gnnpoivder treason and plot ; I see no reason AVhy Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot . " —Popular ioggrel .
, CHAPTER I . fZS THE JUDKBACK BANK . IsST Avas a dull , gloomy , foggy Noj ^| vember-like morning in London , |& F altbougb it was in realit y tbe
S / jg §! $ » beginning of March , in the tip * year 1604-5 , when the Avidow | j | Critehett stood in Legality Lane ffi awaiting the opening of the *^ doors of the Jerkback Bank ; for she held a cheque drawn upon that establishment for the sum of seven
pounds ten shillings , ancl she sorely needed the coin . Now , it was tbe custom of banking officials in those days to receive the negociable instrument from the payee and give a written acknowledgment in return . The bearer then joined a long queue of expec