Rattlin the Reefer

In the volume I am going to write, it is my intention to adhere rigidly to the truth-this will be bonâ fide an autobiography-and, as the public like novelty, an autobiography without an iota of fiction in the whole of it, will be the greatest novelty yet offered to its fastidiousness. As many of the events which will be my province to record, are singular and even startling, I may be permitted to sport a little moral philosophy, drawn from the kennel in Lower Thames Street, which may teach ...