Are you sure it isn't from Chapter 1 of "a Shabby Genteel Story", written by Thackeray and published in Volume 21 of Fraser's Magazine in June of 1840, page 677? -----Original Message----- From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Paul Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:32 PM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Crocodiles and The Slough of Doubt > Here's a test, just for fun. Who wrote the following: > > "But Ensign Wellesley Mac, not having a shilling, ran off with Miss > Crabb, who possessed the same independence; and after having been > married about six months to the lady, was carried off suddenly, on > the 18th of June, 1815, by a disease very prevalent in those glorious > times--the fatal cannon-shot morbus. He and many hundred young > fellows of his regiment, the Clonakilty Fencibles, were attacked by > this epidemic on the same day, at a place about ten miles from > Brussels, and there perished." David Ritchie, it says at the top, although I'd always thought it was Google McThackeray. Trebor Luap Dundee, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html