A guide to the watering places; with illustrations / By Alfred Crowquill [i.e. A.H. Forrester].

  • Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872.
Date:
[1845?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to the watering places; with illustrations / By Alfred Crowquill [i.e. A.H. Forrester]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    One dandy forward—they are always forward—loses his hat and mutters an oath—a beaver-dam of course! and continues his forced employment in spite of his teeth. The full blown damask-roses that erst bloomed on the ruddy orbicular visage of many a votary of Bacchus—have fled—a faithful remnant only (looking rather blue) still retaining a position on the nasal promontory—as if on the look-out. The contemner of tee-totalism makes a vow ‘ not loud but deep ’—that he will never again ‘ take water '—unless qualified with spirits. Some fold their arms and pace the deck resolved to brave the storm—determined not to yield—but alas ! they war against their fate in vain—they are ultimately compelled to give* up ! At last the great Boat itself brings up at Margate, and more dead than alive, the passengers drag listlessly along the pier amid the gaze and giggle of the assembled multitude ! THE PLEASURE BOATS. “ My boat is on the shore.”—Byron. “ Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a cup of bitters.” Jenkins had sung “The sea, the sea”—with such unbounded applause in his little parlor over a tumbler of toddy, that he had infected all his family with perfect enthusiasm for the element, and induced them to believe that he possessed the very soul of a sailor.