Excerpt from Ned Clinton, Or the Commissary, Vol. 2 of 3: Comprising Adventures, and Events During the Peninsular War With Curious and Original Anecdotes of Military, and Other Remarkable CharactersIf the truth is to be told on this occa sion, it must be confessed that we were both Of us indebted for our state Of poverty to the ghostly father, through whose contrivan ces we were led into those expenses which soon made mere ghosts Of our purses, but how much Of this money was given away in charity, or in what manner the rest was circulated, it is needless to explain, though 'tis only chari table to suppose, from our intimacy with the holy father, and his high approbation. Of our conduct, that it was all well applied. For my part, I may own 1 received pleasure in exchange for my money, and that as I grew happy I grew thin, till at length my body, like my purse, was little more than the ghost of what it had been.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.