Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 232
uld have been. The captain, clutching at us with that desperate ferocity whichmarks the tiger when he is deprived of his usual bill of fare, called our attention to hisbill of fares, with a shrieking entreaty that we would look at them ; but a tar, giving oneof the true steam tugs at our collar on… … The sight of the captain ought, perhaps, to have been enough, for his costumesavoured more of Holywell Street than of the ocean, while the cut and character of hiscoat bespoke an acquaintance with slops rather than with seas or even rivers. Thecaptain of a vessel in a seedy body-coat and a pair of…
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