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Title: Master Humphrey's clock
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, ill Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, ill
Subjects: Gordon Riots, 1780
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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E FIRST,the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of EppingForest, at a distance of about twelve mdes from London-mea „r ng from the Standard in CornhiU or rather from theTpot on or near to ^vhich the Standard used to bo m days ofvore-a house of puWio entertainment called the Maypolerch Lt was demonstrated to all such t-*- - J™^^^neither read nor write (and s>xty-s,x years ago a v^tnumber both of travellers and stay-at-homes were m th,scondition) by the emblcni reared on the roads.de oveigat tl house, which, if not of those goodly proport.onsthat Maypoles were wont to present n. o den t.mes, was afair young ash, thirty feet in height, and stra>ght as anyarrow that ever English yeoman drew.^^».^-^- The Maypole-by which term from henceforth .s meant- - ...»;^;-:»- in» J^ , J 1^ ,,,a8 an old building, with more the house, and not its sign—tne iuayiioi^ , ,„ „ „,„.„ dav • liu-c .able end; than a lazy man would care to count on a sunny day, = vol.. II.—-If)-
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230 MASTER HUMPHREYS CLOCK. zig-zag chimneys, out of which it seemed as though even smoke could notchoose but come in more than naturally fantastic shapes, imparted to it inits tortuous progress; and vast stables, gloomy, ruinous and empty. Theplace was said to have been built in the days of King Henry the Eighth; andthere was a legend, not only that Queen Elizabeth had slept there one nightwliile upon a hunting excursion, to wit in a certain oak-panneled room with adeep bay window, but that next morning, while standing on a mounting blockbefore the door with one foot in the stirrup, the virgin monarch had then andthere boxed and cuffed an unlucky page for some neglect of duty. The matter-of-fact and doubtful folks, of whom there were a few among the Maypole cus-tomers, as unluckily there always are in every little community, were inclinedto look upon this tradition as rather apocryphal; but whenever the landlord ofthat ancient hostelry appealed to the mounting block itself as evidenc

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