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A DISCONTENTED PAPER. 405
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it was withunbounded surprise , almost incredulity , that I received the and other short evening ha , ir , a summons from to a bead to p le in resen -looking t m Maj y personage self st ' t a given with and time a under long at coat t the he
guid 'Pig a and nce " Whistle f Blank , ' Bl enquire ank , Esquire , Her , Her e Majesty ys name ' s Coroner for the ttouching the death of Henry Blank . I own it , I winced at
fellow this coun 'invitation y , jurymen ; not would only be because , but because I knew had upon been what enquiry sor bab t of of nd company my trades my - t
breach people , in I found own that circle poor would * Henry make ' it particularl a y y , painful aa recen to me my view the bodf I should be
to Unknown be called to me upon a lad to « who has more y ri , g ' ht as to o my course presence ( I say . it without prejudice , to loyalt y y ) than even my and Sovere true ign Lady , made
efforts to get me off , but in vain , for good men were scarce just T at that ' lock time on . a wet morning found me at the door of the c Pig
and I recognised en Whistle oc , ' where probable I was brother hailed juryman by a seed . y- Of looking him I person enquired in where whom
a the ro what om w the as , ceremonies where the were body' was , t what her ma sort tters of man teres the ting Coroner to the
men was nervous , now curiosity began to of gather a juryman together , about , and to we make adj his ourned wh debut from Other the damp jury tio
began antecedents street , to in the which of parlor the I interlocutors could of the take ' Pi no g , and and part lack Whistle , for of lack interest ; ' of knowled ere in the ge versa of top the ics n
discussed ciand ; which matters I am of dome bound stic to detail say were furnishing chiefly beer food , sp for irits chaff , pipes of ,
most gars infinitesimal , humour . I turned over a Directory , and after some vain _jistener attempts The to be chief sociable facts with which my I gathered neighbours were , became that these exclusivel men y ,
the tradesmen habitues a ir evening of . and the jollification parlor small ; householder that there ; their and s that lives of their the would chief nei be ghbourhood " a thing blank of without , beauty were
and ier- joy lass for who ever held " was lucifers the in conventional one hand and plaster a gas Venus burner opposite in the the
other pg . , and signalised By doffing and by bye of a reverential Her hats . Majest He was y dropp ' s very Coroner ing polite of came eyelids , and , and as and soon his of advent as small he talk was had ,
seate —called d himself upon , pulled the beadle out some -looking paper person and pens to 6 , open and filled the court up a Return , Crier . ' ,
the door Then bar of followed the addressed parlor an , eminently and himself thrusting , ridiculous in the his voice closel episode of y cropped a . costermonger Crier head went out calling to into the
, to the barmaid ( there was no one else to hear him ) in these imperative All greens you , —who but are slightl summoned y inappropriate —to them be terms and _£ : appear — the "O barmaid — yes in ! O the yes to Queen ! O yes ' s !
name— " and so forth , adjuring . ( . _* ., ) appear
A Discontented Paper. 405
A DISCONTENTED PAPER . 405
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/45/
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