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+ | ====== TRAVELS OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN ====== | ||
+ | ===== CHAPTER XIX ===== | ||
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+ | //The Baron crosses the Thames without the assistance of a bridge, | ||
+ | ship, boat, balloon, or even his own will: rouses himself after a | ||
+ | long nap, and destroys a monster who lived upon the destruction of | ||
+ | others.// | ||
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+ | My first visit to England was about the beginning of the present | ||
+ | king's reign. I had occasion to go down to Wapping, to see some goods | ||
+ | shipped, which I was sending to some friends at Hamburgh; after that | ||
+ | business was over, I took the Tower Wharf in my way back. Here I found | ||
+ | the sun very powerful, and I was so much fatigued that I stepped into | ||
+ | one of the cannon to compose me, where I fell fast asleep. This was | ||
+ | about noon: it was the fourth of June; exactly at one o' | ||
+ | cannon were all discharged in memory of the day. They had been all | ||
+ | charged that morning, and having no suspicion of my situation, I was | ||
+ | shot over the houses on the opposite side of the river, into a | ||
+ | farmer' | ||
+ | large hay-stack, without waking, and continued there in a sound sleep | ||
+ | till hay became so extravagantly dear (which was about three months | ||
+ | after), that the farmer found it his interest to send his whole stock | ||
+ | to market: the stack I was reposing upon was the largest in the yard, | ||
+ | containing above five hundred load; they began to cut that first. I | ||
+ | woke with the voices of the people who had ascended the ladders to | ||
+ | begin at the top, and got up, totally ignorant of my situation: in | ||
+ | attempting to run away I fell upon the farmer to whom the hay | ||
+ | belonged, and broke his neck, yet received no injury myself. I | ||
+ | afterwards found, to my great consolation, | ||
+ | detestable character, always keeping the produce of his grounds for | ||
+ | extravagant markets. | ||
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+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | Go to [[CHAPTER XX]] | ||
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