***** At the end of each day Ah Cum would inquire as to the progress of the patient, and invariably the answer was: "About the same. Here the ribs of a thousand pounds beating against the Needles— those dangerous rocks, credulity here floated, to and fro, silks, stuffs, camlets, and velvet, without giving place to each other, according to their dignity; here rolled so many pipes of canary, whose bungholes lying open, were so damaged that the merchant may go hoop for his money," A less picturesque, but more truthful, and, therefore, more melancholy description of the same scene, is furnished by the shrewd and satirical Ned Ward, who informs us, in the "Delectable History of Whittington's College," that "When the prisoners are disposed to recreate themselves with walking, they go up into a spacious room, called the Stone Hall; where, when you see them taking a turn together, it would puzzle one to know which is the gentleman, which the mechanic, and which the beggar, for they are all suited in the same garb of squalid poverty, making a spectacle of more pity than executions; only to be out at the elbows is in fashion here, and a great indecorum not to be threadbare. It was that somebody had cheated you. “How did you know I haven’t been getting any sleep --?” “Oops, that’s my class. " "Very well, sir. ‘I dare say the best plan will be for me to bring her to see you, after all. “You don’t have to go if you don’t want to. There was a brief pause, a crowded pause, between them. "To be sure," returned Wild; "he's not only alive, but likely for life, if we don't clip the thread. You know that I am practically destitute, without means or any certain knowledge of where my next meal is coming from.
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