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William Manning. Ayons Mili cones
Mils and road, 1831-

SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY

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Printed for P. MILLER and J. WHITE, Bookfellers
in the Strand, M DCC LXXIV.

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SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY,

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HEY order, faid I, this matter better in France

-You have been in France? faid my gentleman, turning quick upon me with the moft civil triumph in the world.-Strange! quoth T, debating the matter with myfelf, That one and twenty miles failing, for 'tis abfolutely no further from Dover to Calais, fhould give a man thefe rightsI'll look into them: fo giving up the argument-I went ftraight to my lodgings, put up half a dozen of fhirts and a black pair of filk breeches" the coat "I have on, faid 1, looking at the fleeve, will do' -took a place in the Dover ftage; and the pacquet failing at nine the next morning-by three I had got fat down to my dinner upon a fricaffee'd chicken fo inconteftibly in France, that had I died that night of an indigeftion, the whole world could not have fufpended the effects of the Droits d'abaine * -my fhirts, and black pair of filk breeches-port

All the effects of ftrangers (Swifs and Scots excepted) dying in France, are feized by virtue of this law, though the heir be upon the fpot the profit of thefe contingencies being farm'd there is no redress.

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