The book Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet: An Autobiography was written by author Kingsley Charles Here you can read free online of Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet: An Autobiography book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet: An Autobiography a good or bad book?
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Digitized by VjOOQIC CHAPTER XIL CAMBRIDGE. When I started again next morning, I found myself so stiff and footsore, that I could hardly put one leg before the other, much less walk upright. I was really quite in despair, before the end of the first mile ; for I had no money to pay for a lift on the coach, and I knew, besides, that they would not be passing that way for several hours to come. So, with aching back and knees, I made shift to limp along, bent almost double, and ended by sitting do...wn for a couple of hours, and looking about me, in a country which would have seemed dreary enough, I sup- pose, to any one but a freshly-liberated captive, such as I was. At last I got up and limped on, stiffer than ever from my rest, when a gig drove past me towards Cam- bridge, drawn by a stout cob, and driven by a tall, fat, jolly-looking farmer, who stared at me as he passed, went on. looked back, slackened his pace, looked back again, and at last came to a dead stop, and hailed me in a broad nasal dialect — " Whor be ganging, then, boh ?" "To Cambridge." "Thew*st na git there that gate.
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