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Vice in its Proper Shape - Anonymous · Bill Nye's Sparks

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  Speaker 1: Introduction to Vice in its proper shape. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Vice in its Proper Shape, or the wonderful and melancholy
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  Speaker 1: transformation of several naughty masters and misses into those contemptible
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  Speaker 1: animals which they most resemble in disposition By anonymous introduction.
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  Speaker 1: It was the opinion of the wise Pythagoras and of
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  Speaker 1: some other philosophers, that the souls of men, women, and children,
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  Speaker 1: after their death, are sent into other human bodies, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes into those of beasts, or birds, or even insects,
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  Speaker 1: and that they thereby change their residence either to their
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  Speaker 1: advance advantage or disadvantage, according to their good or ill
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  Speaker 1: behavior in their preceding state of existence. This singular opinion
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  Speaker 1: still prevails in some parts of the East Indies, and
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  Speaker 1: that to such a degree that they make it criminal
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  Speaker 1: to put any animal to death. For how do you know,
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  Speaker 1: they say, but in killing a sheep, a bird, or
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  Speaker 1: a fish, you murder or father, or your brother, or
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  Speaker 1: some other deceased friend or relation whose soul may inhabit
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  Speaker 1: the body of the animal you so wantonly destroy. An
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  Speaker 1: officer in the service of the East India Company, and
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  Speaker 1: a particular friend of mine had liked to have lost
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  Speaker 1: his life by not paying a proper deference to this
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  Speaker 1: whimsical notion. For being some time in that part of
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  Speaker 1: the country and happening to shoot a heron, he was
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  Speaker 1: immediately arrested and prosecuted for it by one of the
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  Speaker 1: native The man insisted that the heron was inhabited by
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  Speaker 1: the soul of his father, and supported his point so
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  Speaker 1: much to the satisfaction of the court, that had it
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  Speaker 1: not been for the friendly assistance of a Jew who
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  Speaker 1: appeared as the captain's advocate, he would certainly have been condemned.
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  Speaker 1: The Jew allowed that what the plaintiff had asserted was
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  Speaker 1: strictly true, but pleaded on behalf of his client that
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  Speaker 1: the soul of his the said client's grandmother, resided in
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  Speaker 1: the body of a fish, which the said client had
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  Speaker 1: often seen and knew perfectly well, and that at the
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  Speaker 1: time when the heron was killed, the said heron was
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  Speaker 1: going to dart upon the said fish to devour it,
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  Speaker 1: so that the said client, being strongly moved thereunto by
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  Speaker 1: his natural affection instantly shot the said heron, purely to
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  Speaker 1: save the life of his grandmother. This plea was admitted,
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  Speaker 1: and the captain was immediately discharged by order of the court.
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  Speaker 1: It is well for the reader that the captain escaped
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  Speaker 1: as he did, for if he had been hanged for
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  Speaker 1: murdering the heron, it is more than probable that it
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  Speaker 1: would have been out of his power to have returned
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  Speaker 1: to England with that curious little treatise, which I have
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  Speaker 1: now taken the pains to translate into English for the
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  Speaker 1: amusement of the little masters and misses of Great Britain.
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  Speaker 1: It contains a diverting account of several naughty boys and girls, who,
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  Speaker 1: after their death, which was generally owing to their own folly,
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  Speaker 1: were degraded into such animals as they most resembled when alive.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot pretend to say who was the author, for
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  Speaker 1: his modesty was so great that he has not inserted
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  Speaker 1: his name in the title page. The captain tells me
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  Speaker 1: it is the opinion of some of the Indian critics
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  Speaker 1: that he was an academy keeper who wrote for the
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  Speaker 1: instruction of his scholars, and of others that he was
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  Speaker 1: a fond father, who wrote for the entertainment of his children.
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  Speaker 1: But as it is very possible that both of them
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  Speaker 1: may be mistaken, I shall not presume to decide which
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  Speaker 1: of them have been so fortunate as to discover the
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  Speaker 1: truth in a matter of such evident importance. I have
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  Speaker 1: only to observe that, as long proper names such as
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  Speaker 1: those of the Indians, would have been too crabbed for
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  Speaker 1: most of my little readers, I have put myself to
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  Speaker 1: the amazing trouble of substituting English names in their room,
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  Speaker 1: which are expressive of the characters of the persons to
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  Speaker 1: whom they are applied. After humbly begging the author's pardon
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  Speaker 1: for taking this liberty with his ingenious performance, I must
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  Speaker 1: desire all the masters and misses read my translation of
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  Speaker 1: it to be extremely careful to avoid all the crimes
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  Speaker 1: and follies which it was intended to correct. Otherwise, if
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  Speaker 1: my friend the Captain, who will probably hear of their
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  Speaker 1: ill behavior, should happen to speak of it when he
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  Speaker 1: makes another voyage to India, and it should, by any
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  Speaker 1: means reach the ear of my author, we may perhaps
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  Speaker 1: have a second volume containing a mortifying account of the
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  Speaker 1: surprising and lamentable transmigrations of some of the naughty boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls in England. End of introduction Chapter one of
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  Speaker 1: Vice in its Proper Shape. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Vice
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  Speaker 1: in its Proper Shape, or the wonderful and melancholy transformation
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  Speaker 1: of several naughty masters and Misses into those contemptible animals
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  Speaker 1: which they most resemble in disposition by Anonymous Chapter one
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  Speaker 1: of the Wonderful Transmigration of jack Idyl into the body
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  Speaker 1: of an ass. One morning, after breakfast, I took a
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  Speaker 1: walk into the fields with my seven dear children, which
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  Speaker 1: I did not only for the benefit of their health,
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  Speaker 1: but as a reward for their good behavior. They always
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  Speaker 1: obey me and their affectionate mother with the utmost cheerfulness,
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  Speaker 1: and I, in return am always ready to indulge them
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  Speaker 1: as far as my duty and their interest will permit.
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  Speaker 1: When we had traveled about three miles from the city
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  Speaker 1: where Divine Providence has fixed our abode, we came to
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  Speaker 1: a range of little tenements, or I should rather have
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  Speaker 1: called them sheds over the midst of which, and it
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  Speaker 1: was likewise the largest was fixed aboard on which was
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  Speaker 1: written in lofty capitals wall kinby hall dandal Ahn, which
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  Speaker 1: signifies walk in, behold and learn. The captain informs that
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  Speaker 1: this inscription is in the language of the ancient Brahmins.
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  Speaker 1: While I was musing upon this strange inscription and wondering
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  Speaker 1: what curiosities there could be in such contemptible little huts,
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  Speaker 1: the door of the middlemost was suddenly opened by a Brahmin, who,
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  Speaker 1: with the greatest politeness and affability, desired us to walk in,
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  Speaker 1: assuring me that notwithstanding the mean appearance of his little tenements,
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  Speaker 1: there were several things to be seen in them which
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  Speaker 1: might contribute to the entertainment and instruction of my pretty
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  Speaker 1: fellow travelers. I am, said he, as you may perceive
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  Speaker 1: by my habit a Brahmin, and my name is wise man.
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  Speaker 1: All the time I can spare from the worship of
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  Speaker 1: my Maker and the contemplation of that astonishing wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: beneficence which he has displayed in his works of creation
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  Speaker 1: and providence, I cheerfully devote to the service of my
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  Speaker 1: fellow mortals, and particularly of the younger and unexperienced part
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  Speaker 1: of them. The most valuable service I can render them
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  Speaker 1: is to conduct them into the paths of virtue and discretion.
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  Speaker 1: For this purpose, having been gifted with the faculty of
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  Speaker 1: distinguishing those an animals which are now animated by the
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  Speaker 1: souls of such human beings as formerly degraded themselves to
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  Speaker 1: a level with the unthinking brutes, I have taken the
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  Speaker 1: pains to provide a collection of beasts, birds, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: most of which are inhabited by the souls as some
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  Speaker 1: naughty masters or misses who died in the neighborhood, and
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  Speaker 1: it is possible were not unknown to your little companions.
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  Speaker 1: It was a proverb among the ancient Brahmins that example
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  Speaker 1: is more powerful than precept, and it is the common
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  Speaker 1: language of mankind to this day. I understand what I hear,
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  Speaker 1: but I believe what I see. It would not be amiss. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: if you were to accompany the young gentlemen and ladies
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  Speaker 1: into my little apartments, that they may be eye witnesses
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  Speaker 1: to the mortifying consequences of an ill spent and vicious life,
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  Speaker 1: even to those who have not arrived at the age
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  Speaker 1: of manhood. We accepted the offer with the utmost gratitude,
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  Speaker 1: and eagerly inquired what we had to pay for admittance.
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  Speaker 1: But the good Brahmin assured us that he never made
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  Speaker 1: a traffic of the little wisdom he had to communicate,
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  Speaker 1: and that the most acceptable recompense we could make him
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  Speaker 1: was to bestow what we could prudently spare upon such
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  Speaker 1: real objects of charity as might afterwards fall in our
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  Speaker 1: way for mercy and benevolence, said he are the darling
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  Speaker 1: attributes of heaven, and those who are most distinguished for
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  Speaker 1: the practice of them bear the nearest resemblance to their maker,
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  Speaker 1: and will therefore receive the largest portion of his favor,
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  Speaker 1: both in this world and in that which is to come.
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  Speaker 1: The first room we were conducted into was the habitation
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  Speaker 1: of a little ass who, as soon as we entered
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  Speaker 1: the place, began to bray and kick up his heels
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  Speaker 1: at a most violent rate. But upon the appearance of
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  Speaker 1: mister wise Man, which I have before observed was the
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  Speaker 1: Brahmin's name, he thought proper to compose himself, and stood
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  Speaker 1: as quiet as a lamb. This stubborn little beast, said,
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  Speaker 1: our kind conductor is now animated by the soul of
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  Speaker 1: the late Master Idol. In his lifetime he possessed all
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  Speaker 1: the bad properties of the animal you see before you,
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  Speaker 1: so that to speak the truth he now appears in
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  Speaker 1: his proper shape. His rough coat of hair is a
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  Speaker 1: very suitable emblem of the ruggedness of his disposition, and
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  Speaker 1: his long and clumsy ears not only denote his stupidity,
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  Speaker 1: but as they afford a very secure and convenient hold
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  Speaker 1: to anyone who has occasion to catch him when he
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  Speaker 1: runs loose in the fields, they sufficient intimate that he
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  Speaker 1: was always open to the ill advice of his playfellows.
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  Speaker 1: If the meanest and most dirty boy in the neighbourhood
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  Speaker 1: was in want of a companion, or rather a tall
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  Speaker 1: to assist him in his mischievous pranks, he had nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do but to make his application to Jack Idle.
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  Speaker 1: For foolish Jack, as they truly called him, was at
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  Speaker 1: the beck of every mischievous rogue, and when the mischief
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  Speaker 1: was done, he was always left like a stupid ass,
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  Speaker 1: as he was to bear the burden of it. His
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  Speaker 1: father had money, and Jack's great pride was to be
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  Speaker 1: complimented by his ragamuffin companions. As the cook of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Once I remember it perfectly well. Three barge men's boys,
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  Speaker 1: having a violent inclination to plunder a pippin tree, which
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  Speaker 1: was the property of farmer Krusty. They gave Master Jackie
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  Speaker 1: such a tempting account of the wished for prize, and
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  Speaker 1: held forth so liberally in praise of his courage and ingenuity,
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  Speaker 1: that they prevailed upon him to be not only a
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  Speaker 1: party but the commander in chief of this hopeful enterprise.
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  Speaker 1: But as such adventures generally terminate in the most mortifying disappointment,
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  Speaker 1: the young plunderers were discovered by the farmer before they
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  Speaker 1: had gathered half their booty. The three tarpaulins, being at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the tree, made their escape without much difficulty,
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  Speaker 1: but jack who to support the dignity of his command,
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  Speaker 1: had ascended almost to the top, was unfortunately taken prisoner.
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  Speaker 1: The consequence was that his father, who had to deal
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  Speaker 1: with a wretch who was as crusty by nature as
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  Speaker 1: he was by name, after being obliged to pay ten
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  Speaker 1: times the value of the fruit, conducted his son to
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  Speaker 1: mister Sharp, the gentleman who had the trouble of his education,
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  Speaker 1: from whom he received a severe flogging in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of all his schoolfellows, as a very suitable reward of
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  Speaker 1: his stupid ambition. From this account of him, you will
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  Speaker 1: naturally conclude that he was no great friend to learning,
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  Speaker 1: and indeed, so remarkable was his aversion to the useful
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  Speaker 1: arts of reading and writing, that his greatest improvement amounted
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  Speaker 1: only to an indifferent knowledge of the alphabet, and the
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  Speaker 1: poor accomplishment of being just able to scrawl his own
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  Speaker 1: name in characters which were scarcely legible. He was equally
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  Speaker 1: distinguished for his speed and fidelity when his parents sent
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  Speaker 1: him on an errand, for he could hardly make shift
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  Speaker 1: to saunter a mile in an hour, and when he
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  Speaker 1: arrived at the place of his destination, he usually forgot
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  Speaker 1: three fourths of his message, and endeavored to supply the
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  Speaker 1: defect by some blundering tale of his own invention. He
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  Speaker 1: was once dispatched by his father in great haste to
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  Speaker 1: a gentleman who lived not a quarter of a mile off,
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  Speaker 1: to request the favor of his company in half an
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  Speaker 1: hour's time to settle matters with a grazer of whom
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  Speaker 1: they had purchased several head of cattle. When Jack arrived
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  Speaker 1: at the gentleman's house, which he actually did in the
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  Speaker 1: short space of an hour and a half. He rubbed
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  Speaker 1: his eyes and scratched his head, and informed him that
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  Speaker 1: his father wanted him sadly, and that he must come
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  Speaker 1: directly to speak with the brazier, who he said had
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  Speaker 1: waited for him above two hours. It was very happy
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  Speaker 1: for his parents, whether they thought so or not, that
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  Speaker 1: Jack's sudden exit out of the world in the thirteenth
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  Speaker 1: year of his age effectually prevented him from bringing any
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  Speaker 1: material disgrace upon his family, which he said he certainly
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  Speaker 1: would have done if he had lived to be his
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  Speaker 1: own master. The occasion of his death was as follows.
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  Speaker 1: One morning, instead of making the best of his way
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  Speaker 1: to school, which he was constantly ordered to do, happening
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  Speaker 1: very luckily to be overtaken by Tom Sharper and Dick Laquitt,
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  Speaker 1: they prudently agreed to avoid the intolerable drudgery of the
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  Speaker 1: hornbook by playing truant and indulging themselves in the profitable
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  Speaker 1: diversions of sitting all day on the bank of a
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  Speaker 1: lonesome brook to fish for minnows. They had pretty good sport,
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  Speaker 1: as they called it, for the first hour. But then
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  Speaker 1: mister Sharper's line happened to be entangled among some large weeds,
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  Speaker 1: from which he could not disengage it as he stood
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  Speaker 1: up on the brink, And as he was naturally too
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  Speaker 1: great an adept in the science of self preservation to
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  Speaker 1: expose himself to danger when he could persuade another to
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  Speaker 1: supply his place, he requested the favor of Master Idol
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  Speaker 1: to ascend a sloping tree which stood upon the bank,
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  Speaker 1: and from thence to descend gradually upon a hanging branch,
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  Speaker 1: the small end of which almost touched his line. Poor
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  Speaker 1: Jack was somewhat unwilling to venture upon the experiment, but
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  Speaker 1: a little more persuasion, which was supported by a few
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  Speaker 1: surly menaces, soon vanquished every objection. He accordingly ascended the tree,
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  Speaker 1: But when he attempted to seat himself up on the
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  Speaker 1: hanging branch, the small twigs upon which he stupidly fastened
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  Speaker 1: his hold for that purpose suddenly gave way, and down
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  Speaker 1: he plunged into the middle of the brook, where, after
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  Speaker 1: many eager and ineffectual struggles to recover the bank, he
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  Speaker 1: sunk to the bottom and rose no more. The last
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  Speaker 1: words he spoke were oh, my dear father, my dear mother.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had he meant. I suppose that he
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  Speaker 1: wished he had followed their good advice. But the water,
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  Speaker 1: which ran very fast into his mouth, suddenly stopped his speech,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing more was heard but a faint bubbling in
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  Speaker 1: his throat, and two or three desperate plunges at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the water to preserve that life, which fell
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  Speaker 1: a melancholy sacrifice to his own folly and disobedience. One
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  Speaker 1: would think that such a shocking catastrophe would be sufficient
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  Speaker 1: to subdue ten times the stubbornness and stupidity for which
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  Speaker 1: Master Idle was so remarkable. But as we are too
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  Speaker 1: apt to forget the eager promises and laugh at the
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  Speaker 1: self condemning reflections which we have made in the hour
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  Speaker 1: of distress, I need not mention it as a prodigy
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  Speaker 1: that the soul by which this little beast is animated
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  Speaker 1: is still infected with the same vicious disposition which disgraced
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  Speaker 1: and punished it when it occupied the body of Jack
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  Speaker 1: Idol two. Convince us of the truth of what he said.
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  Speaker 1: The good Brahmin addressed himself to the ass before us,
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  Speaker 1: and assured him that if he was sincerely inclined to
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  Speaker 1: behave as he ought to do and forsake the follies
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  Speaker 1: he had been guilty of in his former state of existence.
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  Speaker 1: He should again have the honor to ascend to the
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  Speaker 1: rank of human beings. But the stubborn little animal, who
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  Speaker 1: perfectly understood what he said, first leered at him with
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  Speaker 1: the most stupid resentment in the world, and then fell
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  Speaker 1: abraying and kicking with greater violence than when we first
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  Speaker 1: entered the room. So said mister wise man, is that
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  Speaker 1: your manners, my boy, and then giving him two or
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  Speaker 1: three hearty strokes. Well, well, said he. If this is
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  Speaker 1: all the return I am to have for my generous
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  Speaker 1: care of you, I will certainly sell you to the
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  Speaker 1: first sandman I see, who will bestow upon you plenty
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  Speaker 1: of drobbing, plenty of fasting, and what you will relish
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  Speaker 1: the worst of all, a never failing plenty of work.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter one.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter two of Vice in its Proper Shape. This is
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  Speaker 2: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: For more information, out volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
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  Speaker 2: Vice in its Proper Shape or The Wonderful and melancholy
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: transformation of several naughty masters and misses into those contemptible
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  Speaker 2: animals which they most resemble in disposition by anonymous Chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: an account of the surprising transmigration of Master Anthony Griedigots
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  Speaker 2: into the body of a pig. The next room into
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  Speaker 2: which we were conducted contained a fat little pig, who,
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  Speaker 2: as soon as we had entered the door, began to
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  Speaker 2: cry a week a week a week, in such a
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  Speaker 2: squeaking tone as grated our ears in the most disagreeable manner.
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  Speaker 2: But as soon as mister Wiseman produced his wand he
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  Speaker 2: lowered his pipes to a few sulky grounds, and then
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  Speaker 2: became as still as a mouse. This young pig, said,
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  Speaker 2: the venerable Brahmin is now animated by the soul of
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  Speaker 2: the late Master Gridigots, who died about two months ago,
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  Speaker 2: and has left a number of relations behind him in
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  Speaker 2: almost every town. You can mention poor foolisue if he
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  Speaker 2: had been less fond of his belly and more attentive
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  Speaker 2: to his book and to the good advice of his parents,
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  Speaker 2: his soul would not have been confined as it now
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  Speaker 2: is in the body of that nasty, greedy and noisy
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  Speaker 2: little animal which you see before you, but to represent
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  Speaker 2: his character in its proper colors. He was always a
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  Speaker 2: hoggish little fellow, and disdained every other sort of labor
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  Speaker 2: but that of lifting his hand to his mouth. He
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  Speaker 2: loved eating much better than reading, and would prefer a tart,
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  Speaker 2: a custard, a plum cake, or even a slice of
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  Speaker 2: gingerbread or an apple to the prettiest and most useful
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  Speaker 2: little book you could present him with, So that if
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  Speaker 2: his parents had purchased a hundred books for him, one
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  Speaker 2: after the other, he would have readily parted with them
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  Speaker 2: to the first crafty boy he met with who had
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  Speaker 2: any trash to spare by way of exchange. It cannot
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  Speaker 2: therefore be considered as a miracle, notwithstanding the extraordinary care
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  Speaker 2: and expense which his friends bestowed upon his education, that
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  Speaker 2: he always continued a blockhead, and was such a perfect
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  Speaker 2: dance at eleven years of age, that, instead of being
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  Speaker 2: able to read and write, as a young gentleman ought
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  Speaker 2: to do, he could scarcely tell his letters. He was
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  Speaker 2: equally remarkable for his selfishness, for if he had twenty
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  Speaker 2: cheesecakes in his box or his pockets, full of oranges
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  Speaker 2: and apples, he would sooner have given a tooth out
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  Speaker 2: of his head than have parted with one of them,
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  Speaker 2: even to his own brother or sister. The consequence was,
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  Speaker 2: and indeed what else could have been expected, that he
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  Speaker 2: was despised and hated by all his playfellows, and distinguished
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  Speaker 2: by the mortifying title of Tony Pig, an animal which
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  Speaker 2: he perfectly resembled in his nastiness as well as greediness.
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  Speaker 2: For if he was dressed in the morning, as clean
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  Speaker 2: as hands could make him, he would, by running into
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  Speaker 2: paddles and kennels and rolling upon the ground, become as
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  Speaker 2: black as a chimney sweeper before noon. And I sincerely
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  Speaker 2: believe that he thought it as great a punishment to
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  Speaker 2: have his hair combed, or to wash his hands and face,
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  Speaker 2: as to be whipped, for he would cry and struggle
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  Speaker 2: as much to avoid the one as to escape the other.
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  Speaker 2: But to ease his parents of their heavy apprehension upon
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  Speaker 2: his account, and to rid the world of such a
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  Speaker 2: plague and disgrace, as he certainly would have been if
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: he had lived two years of maturity, kind death was
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  Speaker 2: pleased to despatch him in the twelfth year of his
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  Speaker 2: age by the help of a dozen penny custards, which
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  Speaker 2: he greedily conveyed down his throat at one meal, and
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  Speaker 2: thereby gorged his stomach and threw himself into a mortal fever.
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  Speaker 2: After his exit, his soul, as I have already informed you,
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  Speaker 2: was hurried into the body of this little pig, a
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  Speaker 2: station which perfectly corresponds with his disposition. Nay, so great
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  Speaker 2: is his tuberness, which is another hateful quality in which
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: he resembled the animal before you, that his punishment has
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  Speaker 2: not made the least alteration in his temper. For if
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  Speaker 2: we were to get his soul replaced into a human
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  Speaker 2: body upon his promise of immediate amendment, he will not
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  Speaker 2: submit even to make such a promise. To convince you
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  Speaker 2: that I have not misrepresented his character, I'll try the
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  Speaker 2: experiments immediately. Accordingly, the good Brahmin asked him before us, all,
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  Speaker 2: if upon the condition above mentioned, he would leave off
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  Speaker 2: his greedy and selfish behavior. To this he condescended, though
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  Speaker 2: with a visible reluctance to grant.
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  Speaker 3: Aye.
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  Speaker 1: Aye.
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  Speaker 2: But how long will it be, said mister Wiseman, before
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  Speaker 2: you perform your promise?
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  Speaker 4: A week a week a week.
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  Speaker 2: Cried the pig. And how long will it be before
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  Speaker 2: you lay aside your nastiness and maintain such a cleanly
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  Speaker 2: and decent appearance as becomes a gentleman? A week a week,
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  Speaker 2: said the dirty creature. And how long will it be
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  Speaker 2: before you respect to the good advice of your parents
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  Speaker 2: and prefer the improvement of your understanding to the gratification
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  Speaker 2: of your appetite?
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  Speaker 4: A week, A week, a week.
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  Speaker 2: Replied the stubborn little animal. In short, said the worthy Brahmin.
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  Speaker 2: If I were to repeat the same questions to him
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  Speaker 2: a month or even a year, hence I should not
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  Speaker 2: prevail upon him to say now, but his constant answer
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: would be a week, a week a week. I believe, therefore,
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  Speaker 2: that instead of reforming him, which is an event that
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: would afford me the most sensible pleasure, we shall at
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: last be forced to roast and eat him. For as
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: long as he continues in his present way of thinking,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: it is very certain that his existence can be of
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: no service, either to himself or anyone else. Thus, then,
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  Speaker 2: said I have troubled you with a particular account of
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  Speaker 2: this stupid little pig, and I sincerely hope that the
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: story will prevail upon my young visitors to be cleanly
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  Speaker 2: in their appearance, temperate in their diet, and kind and
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  Speaker 2: obliging to everybody. For whosoever pursues a contrary behavior is
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: in reality a hog, though he bears the name of
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: a gentleman. End of Chapter two. Recording by Iswa in
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  Speaker 2: Belgium in August two thousand and eight.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Chapter three of Vice in its Proper Shape. This is
• 28:50
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• 28:57
  Speaker 5: Recording by Christine Blashford. Vice in its Proper Shape, or
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: the wonderful and melancholy transformation of several naughty masters and
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: misses into those contemptible animals which they most resemble indisposition
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: by anonymous. Chapter three, the transmigration of Miss Dorothy Chatterfast
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: into the body of a magpie. In one corner of
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  Speaker 5: the room where poor Tony Pig was confined hung a
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: large cage which was the prison of a pert young magpie.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: As soon as my son Jackie, who was the youngest
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: of the company and remarkably fond of birds, had saluted
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: her by the well known appellation of mag poor mag.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: She wagged her tail with surprising agility, and began to
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: chatter in such an elevated tone and with such a
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: rapid pronunciation, that I was heartily glad when the kind
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Brahmin commanded silence. The body of this party colored lacacious
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: bird said, he is the involuntary residence of the late
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Miss Dorothy Chatterfast, who was a most notorious little gossip,
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: and belonged to a family which is as numerous as
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: that of the greedy guts to do her justice. She
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: was a handsome little girl, and as brisk and notable
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: as any young miss in her neighborhood. But to her
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: own misfortune and the unspeakable vexation of most persons who
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: came within the sphere of her observation, her little tongue
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: was as active as her hands. She learned to talk
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: very early, and so speedy was her improvement in the
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: art of prattling, that before she was three years old
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  Speaker 5: she could lisp out a tale in very intelligible language.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: Her parents were so unwise as to encourage her in
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: this mischievous kind of ingenuity, not only from the pleasure
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: they took in hearing how fast she learned to speak,
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: but because they considered it as an infallible token that
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: she would in time prove an excellent wit and a
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: notable manager. It is not therefore to be wondered at
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: that she took a great deal of notice of everything
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: which passed in the family, and particularly in the kitchen,
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: if any of the servants accidentally broke a teacup or saucer,
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: a glass, et cetera, or received an unexpected visit from
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: some of their acquaintance or relations. When her parents happened
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: to be absent from home, she never failed to inform
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: them of it their first opportunity. With many aggravating circumstances
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: of her own invention, for which they generally complimented her
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: by way of reward, with the flattering titles of a
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: good child, a sweet little deer, and a careful little girl.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: By this officious impertinence, she frequently got the servants reprimanded
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: and sometimes dismissed, so that by degrees they all began
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: to fear and hate her. She was equally attentive to
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: every trifle which happened at the school, where she was
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: daily sent to learn the art of reading and the
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: use of her needle for the moment she came home,
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: and before she had well entered the parlor door and
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: made her curtsy, her little tongue began to rattle like
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: a mill clack. Mama said she Tommy Careless was flogged
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: for tearing his book Jackie Fidget because he was a
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: naughty boy and would not sit still, Polly Giddy brains
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: for losing her needle and thread paper, and Lord bless me,
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: my man was so cross that she was going to
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: put the nasty fool's cap on my head only for
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: miscalling the first word in my lesson. In short, she
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: was such a notorious telltale that she was soon dignified
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: by her schoolfellows with the honorable appellation of Dolly cagmag.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: As she advanced in years, the habit grew upon her,
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: and when she was old enough to be introduced into
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: company and go a visiting, she carried on the same
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: mischievous and despicable trade abroad in which she had met
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: with such encouragement at home. Whatever she saw or heard
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: in one place, she would be sure to report it
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: in another, so that all the masters and missus who
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: had the mortification to fall into her company considered themselves
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: as under the malicious inspection of a meddlesome spy, which
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: they had the more reason to do, because she seldom
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: failed to embellish her informations with the recital of several
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: unfavorable circumstances of her own invention. Indeed, mister Wiseman said, Betsy,
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: my youngest daughter, what you have told us is exactly true.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: For I have been in company with Miss Chatterfast several times,
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: and I remember once in particular that when Master Sprightly,
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: who was a merry young spark, had stolen a kiss
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  Speaker 5: from Miss Patty's sweet lips. Though the poor young lady
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: blushed as red as scarlet and seemed to be greatly
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: displeased at the freedom which had been taken with her,
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Miss Chatterfast was so mischievous as to represent her to
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: all her acquaintances as a bold little hussee who loved
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: to be kissed by the young gentlemen. When poor innocent
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: Patty was informed of the character which had been so
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: unjustly fixed her, she was ashamed to stare out of doors,
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  Speaker 5: and laid it so much to heart I thought she
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: would have cried her eyes out. This was very unkind
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  Speaker 5: indeed replied the good Brahmin. And yet I sincerely believe
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  Speaker 5: that all the mischief her tongue was guilty of was
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: more owing to her vanity and that talkative humor in
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: which she had always been encouraged from her infancy, than
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: to any real malice in her heart. She had been
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: long accustomed to speak without thinking, and naturally imagined that
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: her impertinent lacacity would be as much admired and applauded
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: by other people as by her thoughtless parents. I have
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: the satisfaction, however, to observe that you are perfectly sensible
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  Speaker 5: of her mistake, though she had not the good fortune
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: to be so herself. If she had lived much longer,
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: it is very probable that the many slights and affronts
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: she must necessarily have met with would have opened her eyes.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: For those who, by their impertinent censures, set the whole
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: world at defiance may reasonably expect to find an enemy
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: in every house they enter. But her meddlesome inquisitive disposition
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: proved to be the accidental means of shortening her days
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: before she had experienced enough to correct it. For one evening,
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: mister Kindly, a wealthy merchant indulged all the young masters
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: and misses in the neighborhood with a splendid ball at
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: his own house. Miss Chatterfast, though she had at that
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: time a severe cold upon her, was so desirous of
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: embracing such a favorable opportunity of making her remarks upon
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: the behavior and different dresses of the company, and thereby
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: furnishing herself with an ample stock for conversation, that she
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: could not be prevailed upon by her too indulgent parents
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: to spend the evening at home. The consequence was such
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: as might naturally have been expected, by first overheating herself
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: at the ball, and afterwards exposing herself to the night
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: are In her return home, her cold, which was bad
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: enough before, suddenly increased into a violent fever, which hurried
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: her to the grave in the short space of five
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: or six days. Though her untimely death excited the transient
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: pity of most of her acquaintance, very few of them
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: I believe were really sorry to part with her. But
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: notwithstanding that violent propensity to exercise her tongue, which she
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: too frequently indulged to the vexation of her neighbors, she
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: had a large fund of good nature at the bottom,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: so that I am in hopes that she will soon
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: be restored to the rank of human beings and have
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: an opportunity of employing her speaking faculties with greater discretion
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: and in a more agreeable manner than she did before.
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  Speaker 5: Her former locacity, as I have already observed, was almost
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: entirely owing to that vanity and want of thought in
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: which she had been too much encouraged by the simple
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: fondness of her parents. But the low station in which
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: she now appears will probably teach her to be more
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: humble and considerate, and of consequence, to check that talkative humor,
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: which in her past lifetime formed the most remarkable part
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: of her character. Poor mag who I suppose understood every
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: word the Brahmin said, wagged her tail a little as
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: we left the room, but did not think proper to
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: utter a single chatter. End of Chapter three.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Chapter four of Vice in its Proper Shape. This is
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• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Vice in its Proper Shape, or the Wonderful and Melancholy
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Transformation of several naughty masters and missus into those contemptible
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: animals which they most resemble in disposition by anonymous Chapter four,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: the transmigration of Master Stephen Chow into the body of
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: a little cur. In the next apartment we entered, we
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: saw a little snarling cur who immediately saluted us with
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: a surly grin, and barked and yelped, as if he
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: would have torn the house down. He was indeed very
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: securely chained to a small kennel. But my daughter Betsy,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: happening to venture too near him, he snapped at her
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: and tore her apron. Take care, miss said mister Wiseman,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: and keep out of his reach, for though he is
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: but a cur, he is very mischievous. His body is
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the contemptible residence of the soul of the late master child,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: poor miserable youth. He was a wrangler from his infancy,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: and his litigious temper gave him as just a title
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: to the name of charl as his birth. Even when
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: he was a child in arms. He was such a
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: peevish and noisy little brat that his mama could not
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: find a woman who would undertake the trouble of nursing
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: him and as soon as he was able to speak
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: and run alone, he began to wrangle with his brothers
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: and sisters upon the most trifling occasions, and seldom forgot
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: to support his argument by exerting his little hands and
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: heels with the most malicious activity, so that to mortify
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: his pride and give a check to his ill nature,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: they bestowred upon him the disgraceful title of young kick
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: and cuff. Poor Stephen, however, bid defiance to all their ridicule,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: and was so far from being reclaimed by it, that
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: his turbulence increased in proportion to his strength and stature.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: He was afterwards as squirrelsome at school as he had
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: been at home, and in every party, at tour, or
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: trap ball, or any other innocent diversion in which he
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: happened to be engaged. He was always remarkable for disturbing
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: the game by his frivolous disputes. Nay, when he was
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: only a looker on, he would betray his wrangling, impertinent
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: temper by calling out, such a one does not play fairly,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: such a one counts too many, and such a one
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: goes in before his turn. The usual reward he received
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: for his trouble was a handsome drubbing, sometimes from his mind,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: but more frequently from his schoolfellows. He was equally notorious
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: for his great forwardness to give a challenge upon the
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: slightest provocation, and very often from mere wantonness. And sometimes
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: he would very unfairly begin an engagement without giving any
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: previous notice, that he might make sure of the first blow.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: But his strength and skill being unequal to his pretensions,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: the many mortifying defeats he received soon taught him the
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: despicable cunning of assaulting none but those who he believed
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: were either too weak to contend with him, or too
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: cowardly to stand in their own defense. The speedy consequence
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: of such a dirty conduct was that the bigger boys
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: despised and loved at him, and those who were less
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: than himself carefully shunned his com so that at last,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: poor wrangling Stephen, for want of playfellows, had no other
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: diversion left for him but to take a solitary ramble
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: through the fields, his parents being informed of the disagreeable
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: situation into which he had brought himself, and what a
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: shy reception he met with from all the boys in
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: the neighborhood thought it advisable, after giving him a strict
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: caution to behave in a more peaceful manner for the future,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: to remove him to a genteel boarding school at a
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: distance from home. If he had thought proper to follow
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: their advice and make a diligent use of the excellent
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: instructions he received from his new teachers, he might afterwards
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: have cut a shining figure in the world. But as
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: what is bred in the bon seldom gets out of
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: the flesh, so it fared with Stephen Chow. Though he
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: was a little reserved at first, as being entirely among strangers,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: a short acquaintance with them made him very familiar. The
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: affability and good nature with which they listened to everything
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: he said soon encouraged him to be pert and from
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: pertness he proceeded to open rudeness and ill manners, until
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: at last, happening to be very mildly reprimended by one
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: of the young gentlemen, whose tenderness he misconstrued into cowardice.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: He commands hostilities as usual by giving him an unexpected
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: blow on the face, But his antagonist, being possessed of
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: as much spirit as politeness, returned the compliment in an instant,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: and conducted the engagement on his side with such vigor
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: and activity that our hero soon retired from the field
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: of battle heartily drobbed to make his complaint to the master, who,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: after a minute inquiry into all the circumstances of the fray,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: thought proper to reward him for the unnecessary trouble he
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: had given himself with the severest flogging he had ever
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: received in his lifetime. Thus, mortified and disgraced, the unfortunate
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Stephen resolved upon an elopement, but being ashamed to return
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: to his parents, he rambled through the fields and woods,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: and scrambled over hedges and ditches, until at length, having
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: torn his clothes to rags, and being almost ready to
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: perish with hunger, he eagerly listed himself into a gang
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: of gypsies, and supped very heartily upon the remains of
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: a roasted cat. The intolerable hardships he suffered and the
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: cors fair he was obliged to put up with in
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: this new situation, together with the frequent banks and thumbs
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: which he received from the younger part of his strolling comrades,
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: who were as crawlsome and mischievous as himself, but abundantly
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: more robust, soon broke his heart, so that he died
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: in a barn and was buried like a beggar at
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: the expense of a little country parish. While the Brahmin
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: was concluding the history of Master charl my son Jackie,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: whose temper was rather too fiery, looked very sheepish, which
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: his sister Betsy, observing and easily guessing the cause of it,
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: she desired him with a good natured smile when we
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: were leaving the room, to think on poor Stephen and
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: be sure to take warning. End of chapter four. Recording
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: by Iswa in Belgium in August two thousand and eight.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Chapter five of Vice in its Proper Shape. This is
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: a Libriov's recording. All Libyo's recordings are in the public domain.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: For more information or to volunteer, be visit liberywokx dot org.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: Recording by Ashwin Dhin Vice in its Proper Shape, or
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  Speaker 4: the wonderful and melancholy transformation of several naughty masters and
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  Speaker 4: vises into those contemptible animals which they most resemble in
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: disposition by anonymous Chapter five, The comical and modifying transmigration
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: of little Monsieur Fribble into the body of a monkey.
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  Speaker 1: After we had.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: Taken our leave of Master Curl, we were conducted into
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: the apartment of mister Berger, a chattering young monkey, who,
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: as soon as he saw us, whipped his little hat
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: under his arm in a crack, and, seating himself upon
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: his backside, welcomed each of us into the room by
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: several ceremonious nods, which were intended to supply the place
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: of a bow, and were accompanied by such a noisy
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: affected grin that it was impossible for us to forb
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: your laughing. This contemptible animal, said mister Wiseman, is inhabited
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: by the little soul of the late Master Billy Fribble,
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: a young gentleman of French extraction, whose friends came and
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: settled in the country about fifty years ago. His playfellows
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: dignified him with the humorous title of the Little Monsieur,
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: not so much on account of his diminutive stature, as
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: for that trifling and cynical behavior which distinguishes the least respectable,
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: though by many thoughtless persons, the most admired part of
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: the French nation. As neither his bodily nor mental faculties
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: were very vigorous. His childhood was remarkable only for a
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: certain effeminate vivacity, which continually displayed itself in such a
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: noisy and insignificant prattling as was very taresome and disagreeable
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: to everybody in the house. When he grew older, he
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: added to his former loquacity the most passionate fondness for
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: fine clothes, so that in the twelfth year of his
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: age he became as complete a top as ever eyes beheld.
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: He wore upon his head a my corne hat out
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: of the size of a small tea saucer. His coat,
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: which scarcely had his skirts to it, was with the
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: most clearing color he could fix up on, and his hair,
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: which were plastered over with powder and pomatum. Who was
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: tied behind in a large club which hung swagging upon
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: his shoulders like a soldier's knapsack. Thus elegantly dressed, he
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: strutted along the streets with a large stick in his
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: hand about a foot taller than himself, and a small
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: cattured the chast by the side, which he could handle
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: with Alma's dexturity. As his spin an instrument in the
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: use of which he had made such a contemptible proficiency
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: that it required as much acuteness discovered the meaning of
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: this awkward scrawl as to explain the hieroglyphic characters of
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: the ancient Egyptians. What still increased the obscurity of everything
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: which Monsieur Frible undertook the trouble of penning was that,
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: excepting when he wrote his own name, he had a
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: method of spelling which was peculiar to himself. He was
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: equally famous for his skill in the useful signs of numbers,
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: for though doing the space of seven oreight years, he
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: devoted to it a considerable part of that lingering time
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: which he was forced to spare from his private devotions
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: in school house. The sum total of his improvement was
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: that he was garcely capable of casting up the contents
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: of a shoemaker's to bill. His highest ambition was in
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: the first place, to furnish himself with a large collection
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: of complimentary phases, which he had seldom discretion enough to
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: apply with any tolerable propriety, and in the next to
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: complete himself in the polite art of dancing, in which
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: he so far succeeded as to be able to skip
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: about with a most regular agility, though he never had
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: a sufficient share of good sense to be able to
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: answer with gracefulness, and thus accomplished he excited the admiration
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: of every silly crocket, and the envy of every fluttering
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: po com But by all young gentlemen and ladies of
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: understanding he was heartily despised as a mere civilized monkey.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: He performed everything by imitation, and he imitated nothing unless
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: he was forcibly compelled to it, by which a rational
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: being may be distinguished from a brute animal. But the
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: species of imitation in which he most delighted was that which,
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: in the Vulverus style is called mocking. For he was
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: not possessed of a sufficient stalk of ingenuity to be
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: what he very frequent attempted to be a clever mimic.
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: If any of his schoolmates happened to be afflicted with
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: an impediment in the speech, an accidental lameness, or the like,
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: he had the mean barbarity to endeavor to aggravate the
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: misfortune by a coarse imitation, which generally turned the whole
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: ridicule upon himself. He once had the impudence to practice
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: his mockery upon a worthy gentleman in the neighborhood who
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: was so unfortunate as to be unable to speak without stuttering.
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: The gentleman, happening to pass by mister Freeble's door, at
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: which our little mercier was then standing with a magpie
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: in his hand, Bill, said the good man, after inquiring
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: very civically how he did as their pretty mag learned
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: to tet a talk. Yes, replied the saucy fog better
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: than you do, or else I would wring his head off.
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: This rude and impertinent answer, which at first excited the
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: laughter of some of the bystanders, soon gave them a
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: very mean opinion of him, and he was afterwards despised
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: by every sensible person as a mischievous, unthinking cocombe. What
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: aggravated his punishment was that he had so frequently indulged
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: himself in the ungenerous and silly practice of walking the
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: imperfect pronunciation of others, and at last he himself contracted
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: sta habit or stuttering, as he could never leave off.
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: This gave such a poor recombination to the nonsensical things
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: he was continually saying that he became the object of
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: ten times the ridicule which he had endeavored to inflict
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: upon those with a natural impediment. What was pitied in
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: them as a misfortune, would despise in him as an
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: ill acquired and consequently a vicious imperfection. And therefore every
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: one was willing to increase the mortifying smart of it,
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: and keep alive the conscious shame he felt of wearing
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: a full's cap which was entirely of his own, making,
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: dis vexatious and in some degree vindict, racule to which
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: he was daily exposed, and which in time he might
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: have softened disarmed by an humble, impertinent disportment, gave such
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: an insupportable wound to his foolish pride that he soon
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: absconded from company and died of a broken heart, that
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: his soul might afterwards occupy such a station as would
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: be most suitable to his character. It was sentenced to
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: inhabit the body of that finnacle grinning and mischievous little
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: mimic with four legs, which you now behold before you.
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: As soon as the Brahmin had finished his story, poor Pug,
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: who seemed to retain all the little pride of Mensur Fribble, grinned, chattered,
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: and skipped about with a ridiculous restart, which was mingled
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: with every marks of fear, until at last, having agitated
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: himself into a perfect passion, he made a hasty spring
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  Speaker 4: at his keeper, which, to his own abashment and the
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: laughter of my young companions, was as suddenly checked by
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: a small chain secured him to the floor. End of
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  Speaker 4: Chapter five recording yashwin Zen.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter six of Vice in its Proper Shape. This is
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• 56:01
  Speaker 3: Recording by Katherine Eastman, Vice in its Proper Shape, or
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: the wonderful and melancholy transformation of several knaughty masters and
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Misses into those contemptible animals which they most resemble in
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: disposition by anonymous Chapter six, the dismal transmigration of Master
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: Tommy Filch into the body of a wolf. As soon
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: as we had lifted up the latch to enter into
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  Speaker 3: the next apartment, we were immediately alarmed by a horrid howling, which,
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: upon opening the door, we discovered to be the savage
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: music of a lusty young wolf, who looked as fierce
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: as if he would have torn every one of us
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: to pieces. But a strong chain confined his fury to
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: one corner of the room, so that we could venture
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: pretty near him without any danger of feeling the strength
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: of his jaws. This plundering and voracious animal, said the brahmin,
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: who has been accustomed to gratify his appetite at the
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: expense of all the farmers in the neighborhood, is inhabited
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: by the soul of the late Master Filch, who, as
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: you will find by the sequel of the story, is
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: now placed in a station which is perfectly suitable to
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: his character. His very infancy was disgraced by a natural
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: propensity to fraud and rapine. For as soon as he
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: could talk plain enough to be understood, the chief employment
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: of his tongue was to tell as many stories as
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: his little head was capable of inventing, and that his
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: hands might come in for their share of mischief. He
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: never failed to make a property of all the sugar
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: fruit tarts, et cetera, which the carelessness of the servants
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: had left within his reach. If his parents had been
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: wise enough to chastise him for his little roguery. They
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: might have nipped it in the bud, but they were
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: so imprudently fond that they not only neglected to administer
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: the discipline of the rod, but made his falsehood and
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: pilferings the constant subject of their merriment. They considered his
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: faults as trivial, because they were the faults of a child,
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: not reflecting that if the seeds of vice are suffered
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: to grow, they will, in a shorter time than is
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: commonly imagined, take such deep root in the heart that
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: it will be scarcely possible to eradicate them. Experience, however,
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: soon undeceived them. For when little Filch was eight or
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: nine years old, though he had plenty of fruit at home,
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: they had the mortification to be informed that he was
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: making daily incursions into every poor man's garden in the neighborhood.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: The consequence of these repeated complaints was sometimes of severe reprimand,
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: and sometimes as severe a flogging. But neither the one
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: nor the other was able to produce a reformation. Though
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: it is very probable that if they had been applied
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: in time, they might have been applied to better purpose.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: From robbing orchards. He soon proceeded to the raising private
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: contributions on his school fellows. Sometimes he defrauded them at play,
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: sometimes he picked their pockets, and very frequently he stole
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: their books or money out of their desks and boxes. And,
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: as it is the study of every wicked boy to
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: maintain the appearance of honesty as long as he is able,
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: as soon as the robbery was discovered, he was the
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: first person to exclaim against it, which he did in
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: the bitterest terms, and to prevent a long and circumsbstantial
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: inquiry after the author of it, which he suspected would
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: not terminate in his favor, he impudently pretended to have
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: been an eye witness of the fact, and then boldly
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: charged it upon one or another of his schoolmates, who
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: he knew had neither skill nor spirit enough to contradict
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: his evidence in a satisfactory manner. By this means, the
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: bashful innocent was frequently punished instead of the guilty. But
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: as bad boys are seldom able to conceal their faults
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: long from the eye of justice, young Filch was soon
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: detected in his wickedness, and being considered as a dangerous person.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: Whose bad example might have a pernicious effect upon his playfellows.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: He was first corrected with all the severity he deserved,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: and then sent home to his parents. In this disgraceful manner,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: he was dismissed from every school in the country till
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: at last, though he was only thirteen years old, there
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: was not a single academy into which he could be
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: admitted upon any terms whatever. But this was not the
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: worst effect of the ill character he had acquired, for
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: as no one is willing to introduce a lad of
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: bad reputation into his house, there was not a tradesman
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: of any credit to be found who would venture to
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: take him as an apprentice, though a large premium was
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: offered for that purpose. His parents therefore were under the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: disagreeable necessity of keeping him at home, but having little
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: or nothing for him to do, he soon fell into
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: bad company, who, in as short a time gave him
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: a perfect relish for the scandalous and expensive amusement of
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: gaming and tipling. His finances, though sufficiently plentiful for a
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: youth of his age, were by the us these destructive means,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: so much encumbered with little debts that to maintain a
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: worthless credit among his worthless companions, he formed the wicked
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: resolution of taking money from his father and mother without
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: their knowledge. The success of his first attempt, in which
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: he was not discovered because he was not suspected to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: be capable of so much baseness, encouraged him to a second,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: and the success of his second attempt encouraged him to
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: greater extravagances and more expensive risk than he had ventured
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: upon before. But his wickedness, which in the former instances
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: had been wrongfully charged upon the servants of the family,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: being at last detected, and his parents taking him very
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: severely to task on account of such an abandoned and
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: depraved conduct, he left them in a fit of anger
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: and remorse, and became a thoughtless and unhappy wanderer in
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: this situation, falling one evening into a company whose mirth
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: and gaiety greatly delighted him, and whose genteel appearance led
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: him to suppose they were gentlemen, though in reality they
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: were no other than highwaymen. He was prevailed on in
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: an unguarded moment when heated with liquor to make an
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: incursion with this infamous bandity, and actually stopped a gentleman
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: and demanded his money. Fortunately, however, for this unhappy youth,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: the gentleman was an old school fellow, and making himself
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: known to him with much entreaty, prevailed on him immediately
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: to leave the company of those desperate adventurers, and totally
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: to abandon a mode of life so shockingly wicked in
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: itself and so dreadfully fatal in its consequences. But from
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: the idle and dissipated manner in which he had spent
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: his time he had contracted an unconquerable habit of indolence
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: and a rooted aversion to business. In this frame of mind,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: the army became his last resource, into which he entered
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: as a common soldier. But after a short time his
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: itch for pilfering returning, he could not refrain from making
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: free with some money with which he was entrusted by
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: his officer. Being detected, he was punished with that rigorous
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: severity with which thefts in the army usually are, and
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: being afterwards thrown into the Savoy prison to prevent a
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: repetition of his crime. He died there in a few
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: days of his wounds in the utmost misery. When the
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: brahmin had finished this melancholy tale, the poor wolf, as
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: if he was conscious how nearly it concerned him, heightened
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: the horror with which it had filled us, by such
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: a mournful and terrifying howl as made us hard glad
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: to quit the room. End of chapter six.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: Chapter seven of Vice in its Proper Shape. This is
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• 1:05:20
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• 1:05:25
  Speaker 6: Vice in its Proper Shape, or the wonderful and melancholy
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 6: transformation of several naughty masters and misses into those contemptible
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: animals which they most resemble in disposition by anonymous Chapter
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 6: seven of the Wonderful transmigration of Master Richard Rustick into
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 6: the body of a bear. In the next apartment into
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 6: which mister Wiseman conducted us, we saw the cub of
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 6: a bear, who lay upon the floor to which he
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 6: was chained, without having the good manners to rise when
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 6: we entered. But when the brahmin applied his wand to
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: young Bruin's buttocks, he heaved up his shaggy hide with
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 6: a kind of lazy resentment and saluted us with a
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 6: reluctant grin and a savage growl, which plainly intimated that
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 6: he did not think himself much beholden to us. For
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 6: our company, this young brute, said, our conductor, is animated
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 6: by the soul of the late Master Rustic of clownish memory.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 6: His father was a gentleman of rank and fortune, and
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 6: greatly beloved and respected by all his acquaintance. And if
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 6: his son, Richard had possessed the same virtues and accomplishments,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: he might afterwards have enjoyed his title and estate with
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 6: equal comfort and reputation. But as merit does not go
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 6: by inheritance, like house and land. Young Rustic's character was
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 6: entirely the reverse of his father's. He was of an awkward,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 6: clumsy make, and the heaviness of his disposition and the
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 6: coarseness of his manners perfectly corresponded with the shape of
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 6: his body. Though he was sent to school very early
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 6: and put under the care of the best instructors which
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 6: the country afforded, it was a considerable time before he
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 6: could tell his letters, and much longer before he could
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 6: read with tolerable accuracy, And even then he pronounced everything
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 6: with such a clownish accent and such a drawling tone,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 6: that any stranger would have taken him for a young
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 6: country bumpkin who had been used to follow the plow tail,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 6: and not for the son and heir of a wealthy gentleman.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 6: He was equally eminent for his neatness and dexterity in
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 6: the art of penmanship. For even when he was twelve
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 6: years old, if you had seen the letter which he
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 6: then sent to his mama with hed the knowledge of
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 6: his master, it was wrote so crooked, not from side
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 6: to side, as it ought to have been, but from
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 6: corner to corner, and the strokes were all so coarse
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 6: and uneven, and the whole of the letter so awkwardly spelt,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 6: and so unmercifully blotted and bedaubed, that you would have
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 6: thought it had been the elegant epistle of Tony Clodhopper
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 6: to his grandmother, Goody Lindsey Woolsey. As for his Mamma,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 6: poor gentlewoman, when she first opened it, she thought it
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 6: had been sent to her by some impudent shoeblack or
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 6: chimney sweeper. But when she had directed her eyes to
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 6: the bottom and read, though not I assure you, without
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 6: the greatest difficulty from your loving and respectful son, Richard Rostik.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 6: She was so much oppressed with shame and vexation that
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 6: she tore the letter into a thousand pieces and was
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 6: ready to burst into tears. He was alike remarkable for
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 6: the politeness of his manners and his agreeable address, For
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 6: he had such a treacherous memory, though he had been
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 6: frequently reminded of the propriety and indeed the necessity of
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 6: observing those little punctilios of good behavior, that he seldom
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 6: remembered when any company entered the room in which he
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 6: happened to be sitting, either to rise from his chair
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  Speaker 6: or take off his hat. And when he was told
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  Speaker 6: of it, either by his parents or his master, he
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  Speaker 6: would bounce up and snatch of his hat in such
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  Speaker 6: an awkward hurry, grinning and leering the whole time that
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  Speaker 6: you would have thought he had just started from a dream.
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  Speaker 6: And even then he would generally forget to finish the
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  Speaker 6: rude ceremony by making one of his ducking boughs. It
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  Speaker 6: is true, indeed he had been under the hands of
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  Speaker 6: a dancing master, But notwithstanding the utmost care and assiduity
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  Speaker 6: of his teacher, who was esteemed a very excellent one.
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  Speaker 6: He was never able to perform a whit better than
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  Speaker 6: he does in his present shape. In short, you might
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  Speaker 6: as well have kept a hog in training for new
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  Speaker 6: market races, or an ox for his majesty to ride
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  Speaker 6: upon at a grand review, as have attempted to initiate
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  Speaker 6: Master Dicky Rustick in the elements of politeness and good breeding.
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  Speaker 6: With such a delicate disposition and such amiable talents, you
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  Speaker 6: will readily perceive that he must have been a most
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  Speaker 6: agreeable playfellow. His favorite diversion was that which has been
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  Speaker 6: distinguished by the vulgar by the well known name of
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  Speaker 6: Pully Hawley, in which he so much excelled that whenever
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  Speaker 6: he was invited by the young gentlemen and ladies in
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  Speaker 6: the neighborhood to play with them, he generally rewarded their
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  Speaker 6: civility by tearing their coats or pulling their clothes off
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  Speaker 6: their backs before he returned home, so that at last
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  Speaker 6: they bestowed upon him, by general consent, the honorable title
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  Speaker 6: of Squire Bruin. It must, however, be acknowledged that he
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  Speaker 6: was a youth of such impartial justice that he showed
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  Speaker 6: as little favor to his own clothes as those of
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  Speaker 6: other people, For what with climbing up old trees and
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  Speaker 6: rambling over hedges and ditches to seek for birds nests,
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  Speaker 6: he commonly appeared by dinner time, how well soever he
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  Speaker 6: had been dressed in the morning in as ragged a
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  Speaker 6: coat as he wears at present. It must also be
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  Speaker 6: remarked that if the young gentlemen and ladies soon grew weary,
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  Speaker 6: as indeed they did of such a rough playfellow, he
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  Speaker 6: in his turn, was as willing to leave their company
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  Speaker 6: as they were to be rid of his. For his
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  Speaker 6: chief delight was to associate with such vulgar boys and
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  Speaker 6: girls as were of the same rugged disposition as himself.
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  Speaker 6: With these he could pull and haul, and romp and
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  Speaker 6: tear as long as he pleased, And the more active
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  Speaker 6: he became in this ragamuffin species of diversion, the more
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  Speaker 6: they relished his company. But upon occasion he could fight
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  Speaker 6: as well as play. I mean, when he either was
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  Speaker 6: provoked to it by his equals, or tempted to it
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  Speaker 6: by the hopes of defrauding of their little property. Those
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  Speaker 6: whom he knew had neither strength enough nor courage to
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  Speaker 6: resist him. But whatever was his motive, either for beginning
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  Speaker 6: or suffering himself to be drawn into an engagement, he
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  Speaker 6: was very far from confining himself to any rules of
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  Speaker 6: honor or to the established laws of war. For instead
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  Speaker 6: of boxing fairly, he would kick, pull, hair bite, and
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  Speaker 6: scratch most unmercifully, and never fail to take every advantage
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  Speaker 6: of his antagonist after he had brought him to the ground.
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  Speaker 6: For these reasons he was soon dignified with the name
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  Speaker 6: of Dick Bear even by the vulgar boys in the streets,
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  Speaker 6: and most of them afterwards took care never to engage
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  Speaker 6: with him, unless when there were several other boys present
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  Speaker 6: to see fair play. One would think that such a
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  Speaker 6: rough hewn and slovenly mortal as we have been describing
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  Speaker 6: would have had little regard for any delicacies in the
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  Speaker 6: eating way. But whoever draws such a conclusion in favor
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  Speaker 6: of our hero Dicky Rustick is greatly mistaken, for I
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  Speaker 6: can assure you that he has had as nice and
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  Speaker 6: dainty a tooth as any lady in the land. Though
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  Speaker 6: his father always kept a handsome table, it afforded scarcely
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  Speaker 6: anything which was good enough for the palate of Master Richard.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing would go down with him but tarts, custards, and
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  Speaker 6: the most costly cakes and puddings. For as to good
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  Speaker 6: roast and boiled meat, and plain and wholesome pies or dumplings,
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  Speaker 6: he would turn up his nose at them, as if
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  Speaker 6: they were fit only for vagabonds and beggars. Nay, even
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  Speaker 6: to this very hour, and in his present clumsy shape,
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  Speaker 6: he is almost as dainty as ever, for he is
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  Speaker 6: remarkably fond of honey, and if permitted, would often expose
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  Speaker 6: his shaggy head and his eyes to the resentment of
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  Speaker 6: the bees, by disturbing their hives to rob them of
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  Speaker 6: their delicious store. It was his fondness for niceties of
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  Speaker 6: every kind which shortened his days and eased his parents
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  Speaker 6: of their apprehensions, for a son who, if he had lived,
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  Speaker 6: would have been a continual plague and disgrace to them.
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  Speaker 6: For on the day when he entered into the fourteenth
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  Speaker 6: year of his age, being indulged rather more than common,
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  Speaker 6: he devoured such a quantity of the richest tarts that
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  Speaker 6: his stomach could not digest them, so that he soon
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  Speaker 6: fell into a violent fever, which in a few days
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 6: hurried his unworthy soul out of the body of a
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  Speaker 6: young country squire. For such he would have been into
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  Speaker 6: the carcass of this hairy and awkward young monster which
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  Speaker 6: now stands before you. He so well understands what I
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  Speaker 6: have been saying, and is so much vexed at the
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  Speaker 6: character I have given of him, which he knows to
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  Speaker 6: be a very just one, that if you will promise
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  Speaker 6: to quit the room and leave him to himself, he
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  Speaker 6: will pleasure you with one of his best dances before
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  Speaker 6: you go. Accordingly, after thanking the Brahmin for the account
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  Speaker 6: he had given us, we all promised to leave mister
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  Speaker 6: Bruin to his own meditation, upon which, after taking two
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  Speaker 6: or three sulky rounds, the young savage reared himself upon
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  Speaker 6: his buttocks and shuffled a saraband which lasted a few minutes.
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  Speaker 6: When he had finished his dance, he swaggered down again
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  Speaker 6: upon his four paws, and, by a sullen growl, seemed
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  Speaker 6: to claim the performance of our promise, an indulgence which
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  Speaker 6: we very readily granted him. End of Chapter seven. Recording
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  Speaker 6: by Rhonda Fetterman.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight of Vice, in its proper shape This is
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  Speaker 1: Vice in its proper shape, or the wonderful and melancholy
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: transformation of several naughty masters and misses into those contemptible
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: animals which they most resemble in disposition by anonymous Chapter
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  Speaker 1: eight of the astonishing transmigration of Miss Abigail evil Tongue
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  Speaker 1: into the body of a serpent. In the next apartment,
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  Speaker 1: we saw a large wire cage, in which the brahmin
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: told us he had a bird which was something different
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  Speaker 1: from the common ones, and so indeed it was, for
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  Speaker 1: upon my eldest daughter's going near to see it, she
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  Speaker 1: was startled by a large serpent, which darted itself against
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  Speaker 1: the wires and hist and cyst as if it would
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  Speaker 1: have stung us all to death in an instant. It was, however,
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  Speaker 1: a very beautiful creature of the kind, and as the
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  Speaker 1: sun then shone very bright, the gold and silver streaks
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  Speaker 1: upon its azure skin made a very splendid appearance. My
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  Speaker 1: youngest son wanting to go and stroke it. No, my
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  Speaker 1: pretty boy, said the good Brahmin, if you have any
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  Speaker 1: value for yourself, you will always keep out of the
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  Speaker 1: reach of such creatures as these, and of all such
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  Speaker 1: who resemble the young lady, by whose soul this serpent
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  Speaker 1: is animated. I say, young lady, because the serpent before
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  Speaker 1: you is indeed animated by the soul of the late
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  Speaker 1: Miss Abigail Evil Tongue. The family of the evil Tongue,
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  Speaker 1: I dare say you have heard of them, is extremely numerous.
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  Speaker 1: For there are some, and indeed too many of them,
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  Speaker 1: in every town, and I believe in every village in
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: the country. Miss Abigail, the young lady I am speaking of,
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  Speaker 1: had as just a title to the name, and supported
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  Speaker 1: the character of her family with as much exactness as
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  Speaker 1: anyone amongst them. For her tongue was remarkably active and
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: spared the reputation neither of friend nor foe. She was,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: it is true, a very handsome girl, and the charms
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  Speaker 1: of her person would have procured her many admirers if
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  Speaker 1: they had not been disgraced by her natural propensity to
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: slander and defamation. In her very infancy, as soon as
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  Speaker 1: she could speak to be understood, she began with telling
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  Speaker 1: FIBs of the servants, and very frequently of her brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters, for which you may be certain they all
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  Speaker 1: despised her very heartily, But as she was too much
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  Speaker 1: encouraged in this hateful practice by her parents, instead of
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  Speaker 1: of being severely flogged for it, as she ought to
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  Speaker 1: have been, she set the frowns and sneers of the
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  Speaker 1: others at open defiance. And the more they resented her
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: little malice, the more eager she was to gratify it
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  Speaker 1: by loading them with all the falsehood she was capable
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  Speaker 1: of inventing. In proportion. As she grew older this mischievous
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: habit increased upon her, and when she was big enough
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  Speaker 1: to go visiting, she indulged it abroad with as much
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  Speaker 1: freedom as she had been used to do at home,
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  Speaker 1: so that in a short time there was scarcely a
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  Speaker 1: young miss or master in the neighborhood whose character she
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  Speaker 1: had not attempted to injure. What made her slanders the
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  Speaker 1: more odious was that she generally vented them under a
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  Speaker 1: pretense of the greatest friendship and respect for the persons
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  Speaker 1: to whom she related them, and with great seeming pity
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  Speaker 1: for those whose reputation they were intended to destroy. She
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  Speaker 1: had liked her wwise the malicious cunning, to say many
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  Speaker 1: trifling things in praise of the objects of her censure,
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  Speaker 1: that by thus assuming an appearance of the strictest impartiality
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  Speaker 1: and of the sincerest good nature, she might more easily
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  Speaker 1: gain credit to the bad things she said. Afterwards, By
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  Speaker 1: such artifices as these, she frequently succeeded with the innocent
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  Speaker 1: and the unwary, and set one acquaintance and even one
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  Speaker 1: friend against another, without any sort of advantage to herself
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  Speaker 1: but the mere pleasure of making mischief. Another trick which
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  Speaker 1: she often employed for that purpose was to examine into
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: a young gentleman or lady's constitutional foibles, for we all
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  Speaker 1: have some, and when she had discovered these, to go
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  Speaker 1: immediately to the person and tell him or her that
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: master or miss such a one had publicly ridiculed him
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  Speaker 1: for those very failings. By these means, she was almost
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  Speaker 1: certain to be believed without any further inquiry. For everyone,
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  Speaker 1: even upon the slightest hint, will readily suspect that those
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  Speaker 1: things have been said of him which he most wishes
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  Speaker 1: to be concealed, because he is conscious they are really true.
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  Speaker 1: He will seldom trouble himself to inquire into the veracity
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  Speaker 1: of the tale bearer, lest he should be reduced to
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  Speaker 1: the necessity of defending himself on his weakest side. For
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: a similar reason, when Miss Abigail had a mind to
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  Speaker 1: flatter any person, which she frequently would to answer the
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  Speaker 1: purposes of her malice, she always commended him for those
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: particular good qualities or accomplishments which she knew he most
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  Speaker 1: valued himself for or chiefly wished to have the credit of.
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  Speaker 1: Because she was sensible that by this method she effectually
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  Speaker 1: retained and his own vanity as her advocate for whatever
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: she said afterwards. Nay, I have been informed by one
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: who knew her perfectly well, that young as she was,
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  Speaker 1: she sometimes carried her artifice so far as to begin
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  Speaker 1: a dispute with the person she intended to deceive, and,
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  Speaker 1: after a little sharp altercation, pro and con to flatter
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  Speaker 1: his vanity by gradually giving up the argument, and at
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  Speaker 1: last yielding him a victory, which gave him the more
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  Speaker 1: pleasure because he thought it to be entirely owing to
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  Speaker 1: the invincible strength of his judgment. But she had another fault, which,
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  Speaker 1: if possible, was still more odious than any of those
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  Speaker 1: already mentioned, viz. To revile and backbite those from whom
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  Speaker 1: she had received the greatest favors for as she was
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  Speaker 1: too proud to own herself to be under obligations to
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  Speaker 1: any person, so to prevent vent others from taking notice
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  Speaker 1: of them, as she imagined to her disadvantage, she would
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  Speaker 1: represent every obligation she had received from her friends to
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: be either of the most trifling consequence, or to have
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: been bestowed from selfish and despicable motives. Such was the
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  Speaker 1: temper and behavior of Miss Abigail, who was a wretched
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: complication of malice, low cunning, and ingratitude. It is therefore
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  Speaker 1: no wonder that every person of sense and character was
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: careful to avoid her company, and that she was detested
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: by many, and despised even by those who wished her well.
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  Speaker 1: In short, the general contempt to which she had exposed herself,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: and the severe mortification she met with from time to time,
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  Speaker 1: gave such killing wounds to her pride that, after pining
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  Speaker 1: and wasting away with shame and vexation for the space
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  Speaker 1: of self months, she at last broke her heart and
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: gave up the ghost. In the seventeenth year of her age.
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  Speaker 1: After her death, her contemptible soul was immediately hurried into
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  Speaker 1: the body of this venomous serpent, where it still retains
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: its former malice and cunning. When the Brahmin had finished
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: his story, the serpent, as if she understood and resented
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  Speaker 1: what had been said, writhed about and hissed at him,
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  Speaker 1: as if she could have stung his eyes out. We
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  Speaker 1: afterwards visited several other apartments and saw a young tiger,
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  Speaker 1: a fox, a badger, et cetera, each of which was
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  Speaker 1: animated by the soul of some naughty child who very
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: nearly resembled him in temper. But as I have perhaps
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  Speaker 1: already carried my treaties to such a length as will
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  Speaker 1: tire the eyes and the patience of my little readers,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: it is proper to bring it to a conclusion. I
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  Speaker 1: will therefore take my leave of them for the present,
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  Speaker 1: with observing that in one of the rooms we visited,
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  Speaker 1: we saw a pretty little parrot in a gilt cage,
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  Speaker 1: who was perpetually talking, but did not understand the meaning
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  Speaker 1: of one single word he said. This noisy bird said,
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  Speaker 1: the good Brahmin is inhabited by the soul of the
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: late Master Gabble, who was remarkable for two faults. He
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: always spoke without thinking, and read a great deal with
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  Speaker 1: so little attention that he made no farther improvement in
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  Speaker 1: knowledge than if he had never read at all. He
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: devoured everything, but digested nothing. If any of my readers
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  Speaker 1: will happen to be of the same disposition, they may
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  Speaker 1: survey the gilt covers of this little treatise with as
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  Speaker 1: much advantage as they will peruse the contents of it.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter eight, end of Vice in its proper shape,
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  Speaker 1: Or the wonderful and melancholy transformation of several naughty masters
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: and misses into those contemptible animals which they most resemble
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  Speaker 1: in disposition. By anonymous