Travels In England In 1782 By Charles P. Moritz





























































































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To-morrow the chimney-sweeper, said she, her husband, would not be
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To-Morrow The Chimney-Sweeper, Said She, Her Husband, Would Not Be At Home, But If I Came Back By The Way Of Lichfield, She Would Take The Liberty To Request The Honour Of A Visit, And To This End She Told Me Her Name And The Place Of Her Abode.

At night the rest of the family, a son and daughter of the landlady, came home, and paid all possible attention to their sick mother.

I supped with the family, and they here behaved to me as if we had already lived many years together.

Happening to mention that I was, if not a scholar, yet a student, the son told me there was at Sutton a celebrated grammar-school, where the school-master received two hundred pounds a year settled salary, besides the income arising from the scholars.

And this was only in a village. I thought, and not without some shame and sorrow, of our grammar-schools in Germany, and the miserable pay of the masters.

When I paid my reckoning the next morning, I observed the uncommon difference here and at Windsor, Nettlebed, and Oxford. At Oxford I was obliged to pay for my supper, bed, and breakfast at least three shillings, and one to the waiter. I here paid for my supper, bed, and breakfast only one shilling, and to the daughter, whom I was to consider as chambermaid, fourpence; for which she very civilly thanked me, and gave me a written recommendation to an inn at Lichfield, where I should be well lodged, as the people in Lichfield were, in general, she said, very proud.

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