"Thus it happened with me on the present occasion; and I found my ideas suddenly drawn from the sermon in my hand and (in their vagabond way) hurrying over the birth, parentage, education, and situation of the reverend penman."
Adventures of a Quire of Paper [from the London Magazine]
Published in three parts in the <u>London Magazine or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer</u>, 48 (August 1779), pp. 355-8, (September 1779), pp. 395-8, and (October 1779), pp. 448-52. Reprinted in <u>Edinburgh Weekly Magazine</u> (1779) and Dublin's <u>Gentleman's and London Magazine</u> (1779).<br>
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Text from <u>British It-Narratives, 1750-1830</u>, vol. 4, ed. Mark Blackwell (Pickering and Chatto, 2012).