The Lamplighter

The Lamplighter

The LamplighterIf you talk of Murphy and Francis Moore, gentlemen, said the lamplighter who was in the...
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Author: Dickens, Charles,1812-1870
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Language: English
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The Lamplighter

The Lamplighter

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The Lamplighter

CHF 11.38 CHF 5.69
Author: Dickens, Charles,1812-1870
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Lamplighter

If you talk of Murphy and Francis Moore, gentlemen, said the lamplighter who was in the chair, I mean to say that neither of em ever had any more to do with the stars than Tom Grig had. I mean to say I believe in Tom Grig, replied the chairman. Whether I believe in Murphy, or not, is a matter between me and my conscience; and whether Murphy believes in himself, or not, is a matter between him and his conscience. Gentlemen, I drink your healths. The lamplighter who did the company this honour, was seated in the chimney-corner of a certain tavern, which has been, time out of mind, the Lamplighters House of Call. He sat in the midst of a circle of lamplighters, and was the cacique, or chief of the tribe. If any of our readers have had the good fortune to behold a lamplighters funeral, they will not be surprised to learn that lamplighters are a strange and primitive people; that they rigidly adhere to old ceremonies and customs which have been handed down among them from father to son since the first public lamp was lighted out of doors; that they intermarry, and betroth their children in infancy; that they enter into no plots or conspiracies (for who ever heard of a traitorous lamplighter?); that they commit no crimes against the laws of their country (there being no instance of a murderous or burglarious lamplighter); that they are, in short, notwithstanding their apparently volatile and restless character, a highly moral and reflective people: having among themselves as many traditional observances as the Jews, and being, as a body, if not as old as the hills, at least as old as the streets. It is an article of their creed that the first faint glimmering of true civilisation shone in the first street-light maintained at the public expense. They trace their existence and high position in the public esteem, in a direct line to the heathen mythology; and hold that the history of Prometheus himself is but a pleasant fable, whereof the true hero is a lamplighter. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 927
Author: Dickens, Charles
Release Date: May 1, 1997
Format: eBook
Language: English

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