Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp

CHAPTER I.

In the ponderous mouldy register of the little market-town of Saxmundham, in the county of Suffolk--covered with the red remnants of the old worn-out velvet pulpit-cushion of the said village church, into which the Christian religion had been beaten and enforced, both with clenched fist and pointed elbow, and which now plainly told the congregation that it had at last yie...