[lit-ideas] Re: Crocodiles and The Slough of Doubt
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:44:10 -0700
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?
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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
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