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THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES.


  to be idle
CHAPTER I.

IN the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highly meritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute, though, it must be acknowledged, not quite so highly esteemed in the City as she might be. ...
The misguided young men who thus shirked their duty to the mistress from whom they had received many favours , were actuated by the low idea of making a perfectly idle trip, in any direction. They had no intention of going anywhere in particular; they wanted to see nothing, they wanted to know nothing, they wanted to learn nothing, they wanted to do nothing, They wanted only to be idle. ...
The two apprentices of this tale are Thomas Idle and Francis Goodchild.
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