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MY LIFE.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SAMUFL BENTLEY,

Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

MY LIFE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

STORIES OF WATERLOO,

" " WILD SPORTS OF THE WEST,"

&c. &c. &c.

Sir Anthony. Come here, sirrah! who the devil are you?
Captain Absolute. Faith! sir, I'm not quite clear myself: but I'll
endeavour to recollect.

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INTRODUCTION.

Egeon. Why look you strange on me? You know me

well.

Ant. E.-I never saw you in my life till now.

Comedy of Errors.

I HAD been delicate from infancy-and the enervating effects of an unhealthy climate obliged me to retire upon half-pay, and quit Ceylon for England, to try if native air would restore a shattered constitution. I came to London for medical advice; and while my physician was anxious that I should continue immediately under his eye, he recommended me, for amusement and exercise, to make frequent excursions around the British capital.

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No advice could have been more congenial to

a truant disposition." I, who had been buffeted about the world from my boyhood, willingly became a roamer after health; and in

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