Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London, Chatto and Windus · leaf 280
poor Simon such a clank upon the noddle, as made the bloodspin, and afterwards treated Jobson to a sound thrashing, andthen she and her gossips got as drunk as fish women. Simon sneaked away, but when he got home he found hiswife before him, and not forgetting the fault he had com- … 26o Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. mined, she invented a new kind of punishment; for having awide chimney, wherein they used to dry bacon, she, taking himat a disadvantage, tied him hand and foot, bound him in abasket, and by the help of a rope drew him up to the beamof the chimney, and left…
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