I begin a life without similitude with a simile-Start off with four horses and finally I make my first appearance on any stage under the protection of the "Crown."
IN the volumes I am going to write, it is my intention to adhere rigidly to the truth-this will be bona fide an auto-biography and, as the public like novelty, an auto-biography without an iota of fiction in the whole of it, will be the greatest novelty yet offered to its fastidiousness. As many of the events which it will be my province to record, are singular, and even startling, I may be permitted to sport a little moral philosophy, drawn from the kennel in Lower Thames Street, which may teach my readers to hesitate ere they condemn as invention mere matters of absolute, though uncommon fact.
Let us stand with that old gentleman under the porch of St. Magnus's church, for the rain is thrashing the streets till they actually look white, and the kennel before us has swelled into a formidable, and hardly fordable brook. That kennel is the stream of life-and a dirty and a weary one it is, if we may judge by the old gentleman's looks. All is hurried into that VOL. I.-2