Excerpt from Adventures of Elder Triptolemus Tub: Comprising Important and Startling Disclosures Concerning Hell, Its Magnitude, Morals, Employments, Climate, &C., , All Very Satisfactorily Authenticated, To Which Is Added, the Old Man of the Hill-Side

In which the reader hath the honor of an introduction to Mr. Tub, and is made acquainted with the scene of his very marvellous adventures.

If it shall ever be the reader's hap to fall in with a personage exactly five feet high, in his shoes, whose weight shall be exactly two hundred and forty, avoirdupois, and whose shadow on a wall shall reach to exactly half the altitude when he lies on his back as when he stands on his feet: if, as to variety of hue, the nose of that same individual shall resemble a conglomerate specimen of mineralogy, if his upper and nether person shall be encased in garments of snuff-brown dye: and if. in the peculiar twinkle of his eye.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.