Mornings At Bow Street

Why do you walk without your breeches, my honest friend? said the magistrate, in a tone of kind expostulation.[1] "Because I was so hot that I was determined not to be bothered with breeches any longer!" replied the queer old man-twinkling his little deep-set French-grey eyes, and sending forth a long-drawn sultry sigh. The magistrate asked him something of his history; to which he replied, that he was born at Great Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, where his father was a small farmer. "There was a rare lot of us young ones," said he, "running about the lanes, and paddling in the cool green ponds, like so many goslings.

• | Author: John Wight
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jul 04, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1548304999
• | ISBN-13: 9781548304997