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It is a very remarkable circumstance that some few years ago, I think about ten or twelve, but I forget exactly when, a quantity of money in spade-ace guineas was found in a cavity by the shore, not far from Mother Redcap's.
Mother Redcap's was swarming with sailors belonging to the privateer, directly after the vessel had come into port, and it was known that the old lady had received a good deal of the prize-money on their account, yet none of it was ever discovered.
It, however, came off as rustily as 'Jim Crow, for whose feats Facey evidently had a partiality; for no sooner did he get squeaked through 'me oncle's' tune than he returned to the nigger melody with redoubled zeal, and puffed and blew Sponge's calculations as to what he could ride from 'Mother Redcap's at Camden Town down Liquorpond Street, up Snow Hill, and so on, to the 'Angel' in Ratcliff Highway for, clean out of his head.
Near Egremont, on the shore, there used to be a little low public-house, known as "Mother Redcap's," from the fact of the owner always wearing a red hood or cap. This public-house is still standing. I have often been in it. At that time there were no inner walls to divide the room on the upper floor; but only a few screens put up of about seven or eight feet in height to form apartments.
Now, I know a crib that's pretty safe, Birkenhead way; Mother Redcap's, we call it no one's ever been nabbed at Mother Redcap's, and if you'll come along o' me why then if you won't, go your way and be damned to you for a " This was the parting of Adrian Landale from his fellow-workers.
Here am I bolt upright, and ready to fight, if this yawning fit will give me leave Mother Redcap's mightiest is weaker than I drank last night, by a bushel to a barleycorn I have quaffed the very elixir of malt Ha yaw." "And some opiate besides, I should think," said Everard.
It has always been a firm belief with me that some day a rich harvest will be in store for somebody a case of treasure trove like that which some years ago was known as "the Cuerdly Find." Mother Redcap's was the resort of many a rough, hard-hunted fellow, and many a strange story has been told, and scene enacted, under the old roof.
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