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    Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04
    Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04
    Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04
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    Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04

    By Robert Seymour

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 - Robert Seymour

      SKETCHES BY SEYMOUR, Part 4.

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Part

      4., by Robert Seymour

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Part 4.

      Author: Robert Seymour

      Release Date: July 12, 2004 [EBook #5648]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKETCHES OF SEYMOUR ***

      Produced by David Widger

      SKETCHES BY SEYMOUR

      PART FOUR

      EBOOK EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION:

      Sketches by Seymour was published in various versions about 1836. The copy used for this PG edition has no date and was published by Thomas Fry, London. Some of the 90 plates note only Seymour's name, many are inscribed Engravings by H. Wallis from sketches by Seymour. The printed book appears to be a compilation of five smaller volumes. From the confused chapter titles the reader may well suspect the printer mixed up the order of the chapters. The complete book in this digital edition is split into five smaller volumes—the individual volumes are of more manageable size than the 7mb complete version.

      The importance of this collection is in the engravings. The text is often mundane, is full of conundrums and puns popular in the early 1800's—and is mercifully short. No author is given credit for the text though the section titled, The Autobiography of Andrew Mullins may give us at least his pen-name.

      DW

      CONTENTS:

      [WATTY WILLIAMS AND BULL]

      He sat, like patience on a monument, smiling at grief.

      WATTY WILLIAMS was a studious youth, with a long nose and a short pair of trowsers; his delight was in the green fields, for he was one of those philosophers who can find sermons in stones, and good in everything. One day, while wandering in a meadow, lost in the perusal of Zimmerman on Solitude, he was suddenly aroused from his reverie by a loud Moo! and, turning about, he descried, to his dismay, a curly-fronted bull making towards him.

      Now, Watt., was so good-humoured a fellow, that he could laugh at an Irish bull, and withal, so staunch a Protestant, that a papal bull only excited a feeling of pity and contempt; but a bull of the breed which was careering towards him in such lively bounds, alarmed him beyond all bounds; and he forthwith scampered over the meadow from the pugnaceous animal with the most agile precipitation imaginable; for he was not one of those stout-hearted heroes who could take the bull by the horns—especially as the animal appeared inclined to contest the meadow with him; and though so fond of beef (as he naturally was), he declined a round upon the present occasion.

      Seeing no prospect of escape by leaping stile or hedge, he hopped the green turf like an encaged lark,

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