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This is imaginative prose written for a London literary magazine, published in 1823 and set vaguely in “the Spring of 18-“, not a match report or an eyewitness account of a named event. Its worth lies in what it assumes its readers already recognised. A first-person sketch, comic and heavily dialectal, in which the narrator […]
Deadman’s Alley, pp. 11. Plain John Garnet looked somewhat preoccupied now, sitting moodily over his punch, and the influence of his demeanour seemed to steal upon the company in general. Mr. Gale, indeed, held forth loudly on horse-racing, cock-fighting, and such congenial topics, but spent his breath for an inattentive audience, not to be interested […]