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Excerpt from I Says, Says I, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel
I have often thought to myself, and my secret thoughts have as frequently been before the Public, causing me many hair-breadth 'scap'es and imminent dangers, which. I might never have encounter-iv ed, had' lbeen'gifted-with the know ledge of some, handicraft business, and a spirit humble enough tohave Confined itself to the pursuit of its calling, how many evils should. I then have avoided, which have now fallen to my Share how many nights of rest anddays'of careless ness might infthat case have been mine; Vim lieu= of watbhfulness;spleen, hunger, imprisonment, na kedness, and a long catalogue of et celeras.' 0 Nature, Nature! Hadst thou possessed a little more foresight, or a little more compassion for the piece of workmanship which thou turnedst out of hand, when thou set tedstme upwards with a little puff of breath, and bid me pass for man, I might, with the help of good fortune, have now been some honest jour neyman carpenter, with just enough money to frighten away the wolf, and a superfluity of nothing on earth, a wife perhaps, and some eight or ten children only excepted! Then I Should never hav troubled mankind With my thou hts;1and mankind, in return, would never have troubled me with a mothermixture of censure and applause, of hisses, shouts, smiles, frowns, bles sings, curses, plaudits, and damna tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.