COLIN CLINK.
By Charles Hooton
IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1841
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Affords a capital illustration of the way of the world. For, whereasknaves and fools not unusually take precedence of better men, so thischapter, though placed at the head of a long regiment, is yet inferior toany one that comes after.
THE famous John Bunyan, or Bunion,—for the true orthography of thisrenowned name is much doubted amongst the learned of the present age,—haslaid it down as an axiom in that most glorious of all Progresses, thePilgrim's Progress, that “He that is down, needs fear no fall.” And who,in good truth, will undertake to dispute the good pilgrim's remark? Sincenothing can be more clear to an eye as philosophic as was that of Mr.Bunyan, that if a man be seated on the ground, he most certainly is not inmuch danger of slipping through his chair; or that, being already at thebottom of the water, he “needs fear no fall” from the yard-arm.
On this assurance, I take courage for Colin Clink. Down in the world wit