King Pest
Publisher: BookSurge Classics
Published: February 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781594561887
Subjects: Classics; Fiction; Fiction / Classics
First sentence: ABOUT twelve o'clock, one night in the month of October, and during the chivalrous reign of the third Edward, two sea-men belonging to the crew of the "Free and Easy," a trading schooner plying between Sluys and the Thames, and then at anchor in that river, were much astonished to find themselves seated in the tap-room of an ale-house in the parish of St. Andrews, London - which ale-house bore for sign the portraiture of a "Jolly Tar."