Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D, Vol. 5 of 6: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings; Containing the Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, and Travels Through France and Italy The doaor, who had praflifed aboard a man of war in his youth, and was perfeeily well acquainted with the Captain's dialeet, alfured him, that if his bottom was da maged, he would new pay it with an excellent falve, which he always carried about him, to guard againit fuch acci dents ou the road But Tom Clarke, who feemed to have call the eyes of aitection upon the landlady's eldeft daugh ter, Dolly, objceled to their proceeding farther without red and refrelhment, as they had already travelled fifty miles fince morning; and he was fure his uncle mull be fatigued both in mind and body, from vexation, as well as from hard exercife, to which he had not been accuf tomed. Fillet then defifled, faying, he was forry to find the captain had any caufe of venation; but he hoped it was not an incurable evil. This expreflion was aecom panied with a look of curiolity, which Mr. Clarke was glad of an occafion to gratify; for, as we have hinted above, he was a very communicative gentleman, and the affair which now lay upon his fiomach interelled him nearly. 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.