The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton Large Print

As it is usual for great persons, whose lives have been remarkable, and whose actionsdeserve recording to posterity, to insist much upon their originals, give full accounts oftheir families, and the histories of their ancestors, so, that I may be methodical, I shall dothe same, though I can look but a very little way into my pedigree, as you will seepresently.If I may believe the woman whom I was taught to call mother, I was a little boy, ofabout two years old, very well dressed, had a nursery-maid to attend me, who took meout on a fine summer's evening into the fields towards Islington, as she pretended, togive the child some air; a little girl being with her, of twelve or fourteen years old, thatlived in the neighbourhood. The maid, whether by appointment or otherwise, meetswith a fellow, her sweetheart, as I suppose; he carries her into a public-house, to give hera pot and a cake; and while they were toying in the house the girl plays about, with mein her hand, in the garden and at the door, sometimes in sight, sometimes out of sight, thinking no harm