A Morning in Cork Street Or Raising the Wind Containing a Picture of Our Hope
A Morning in Cork Street Or Raising the Wind Containing a Picture of Our Hope
S Sylvester Waterhouse
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This jeu d'esprit contains a lively de- scription of all the schools and places of academical discipline, not generally known as such, with which that famous University abounds. Cambridge is so near to Newmarket, that it is impossi- ble but that a youth of an aspiring mind should imbibe a love of horse-racing, and gambling, which is, of all other human pursuits, the most attractive and destructive. Some of them make it their height of ambition to be distin- guished as a whip, and to be proficie...nts p 162 A MORNING IN CORK-STREET; in the science of buckish and sporting slang up to the gab of the cad true descendants of that much-lamented character, Hell-Fire Dick Vaughan! They assume the dress and manners of the Varment Club are noted for the appearance of their bits of blood for their dexterity at handling the ribbons and supplying the place of the driver of the Telegraph, and for their contempt of every kind of learning but what relates to the brothel or the stable. Lectures to the Devil !
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