Note 16 — ROWLANDSON THE CARICATURIST. (continued 3)
Reading edition
These cross-readings obtained such celebrity that the inventor was tempted to distribute amongst his friends specimens, which 'he had been at the expense of printing upon small single sheets.' We quote a couple of examples from a slip, which was in the possession of J. T. (Antiquity) Smith's family, and, being considered something of a curiosity, is given in the pages of Nollekens and his Times.
Sunday night many noble families were alarmed— By the constable of the watch, who apprehended them at cards.
Wanted, to take care of an elderly gentlewoman— An active young man, just come from the country.