SQUIRE SILCHESTER'S WHIM. BOSTON 1794. LIBRARY. BY MORTIMER COLLINS. VOL. II. LONDON:: HENRY S. KING & CO., 65, CORNHILL, & 12, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1873. SQUIRE SILCHESTER'S WHIM. CHAPTER I. THE LODGER AT DYER'S. Poet. Upon your nice mince-pies I've made a sonnet. D upon it. YER, the confectioner, famous for his tarts, and a dealer also in music and toys, let lodgings when a lodger could be foundwhich was seldom. However, when a lodger did arrive, he was not badly treated, for Dyer had a deft hand at cookery, and Dyer's wife was one of those brisk and alert little women who can do anything. VOL. II. I |