A full and particular account of the extravagent adventures of a young inexperienced farmer from the country : on Wednesday last, who fell in with a dandy young lady, that took him to the famed battery, in the Canongate; with the funny conversation, comical and critical circumstances, and serious consequences that took place on that occassion, &c.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
ca. 1830?]
In prose and verse.
'Price one penny'.
The term battery here, seems to refer to a brothel or house of ill-repute, the 'soldiers' and 'weapons' inside being the inhabitants. This story relates how an innocent and naïve young man is enticed into carousing and then staying the night with the women of the house, who eventually pick his pockets as he sleeps. The outcome of the story is that he loses his horse, his reputation and contracts a venereal disease.
Provenance: Bound in a volume carrying the inscription 'This collection is understood to have been formed by the late James Maidment and it has been added to by me. John A. Fairley' on first fly-leaf.
Deception
Prostitution
Venereal diseases