Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities

Bok av Robert Smith Surtees
Our thoughts hark back to the cover-side and our heart o'erflows with recollections of the past when life rode the pace through our veins and the bark of the veriest mongrel or the bray of the sorriest costermonger's sorriest Jerusalem were far more musical sounds than Paganini's pizzicatos or Catalani's clamorous caterwaulings.