Note 20 — THE Curiosities of Dudley AND THE Black Country. (continued 3)
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Oh! I thought I should faint, when I saw him, dear mother, Feel my pulse with one hand, with a watch in the other; No token of death that is heard in the night Could ever have put me so much in affright: Thinks I—’tis all over—my sentence is past, And now he is counting how long I may last. New Bath Guide.