Excerpt from Colin Clink: Containing the Contentions, Dissentions, Loves, Hatreds, Jealousies, Hypocrisies, and Vicissitudes, Incident to His Chequered Life For the discharge of the more important and pressing duties incident to her situation, she depended upon one or two of those permanently unemployed old croues, usually to be found in country places, who pass the greater ortion of their time in preserving themselves, like red herrmgs or ung beef, over the idle smoke of their own scant fires, and who, as they are always waiting chances, may be had by a ing for at any moment. Their minimum of wages depend upon a small sum of money derived by Mistress Clink, the mother of our here, from a source which, as she then followed no particular employment, we are compel led to pronounce obscure. 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.