Memoirs of Joseph Shepherd Munden, Comedian (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: them. Again he had recourse to his pen, and obtained employment in the office of a writing stationer. Here he met with a London acquaintance, who, not being flush of money, pledged his ring, and with the produce they repaired to Whitchurch, where they separated. From Whitchurch, Joe managed to reach (with some casual assistance) Birmingham, and again met with a friend, a supper, and a bed. He, then, by some means or other, contrived to get to Woodstock, where he was recognised by a person who had left Liverpool a few weeks before, in consequence of a law-suit, in which a verdict had been given against him. At Liverpool, this man followed the business of a gardener, which he quitted on that occasion, and had fled to this place, where, in the gardens of Blenheim, he again wielded the spade. Much pleased at meeting Munden, owing to a grateful remembrance of services, which our hero, during the time he was clerk to the gentleman who defended his suit, had rendered him, he administered to his wants, and gave our adventurer a comfortable proof that good offices are not always forgotten. In the morning Joe pursued his journey. Nothing material happened for some days, till he fortunately met a friend near Acton, to whom he had written from Oxford to meet him on the road with money. Fortunately, it may be said, for a second day's travel andfasting had nearly exhausted his strength, and he was just sinking beneath the pressure of hunger and fatigue. His checquered journey complete, for some time the quill supplied the means of subsistence, until the long vacation of attornies and all dependent on them, stopped for a time the course of cash, ?that friend pf all friends, without which none can be said to live. Munden, in later days, remembering his early distress, was accustomed to say, ..