Excerpt from Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough: With Many Entertaining Anecdotes of His Exploits in Hunting, Card-Playing, &C., Some Particulars Relative to the Expedition Against the Rebels in 1745, in Which He Bore a Personal Share The Blind, in all ages and countries;. 'have engaged, in a peculiar degree, the fympathy of mankind -and where original poverty has been annexed to their misfortune, it has been eflremed the utmoit exertion in their favour, to enable them to miniflser to the amufe ment of fociety, as the only means for keeping them independent of it: To this general rule however, a furprifing exception is here filewn; and it is f0r tunate for the credibility of this little piece, that it is given to the world da ring the life-time not only of its hero, . 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.