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Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq.: Containing the View of the Lancashire Dialect, With Large Additions and Improvements; Also, His Poem of the Flying Dragon, and the Man of Heaton; Together With Other Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse; To Which Is Added a Life of the Author Blessed with a clear masculine understanding, and a keen discernment into the humours and foibles of others, he knew how to make the best advantage of those occasional interviews, in order to promote trade as he was wont to call it, though his natural temper was very far from being of a mercenary cast it was often rather too free and generous; more so than prudence, with respect to his family, would advise, for he would sooner have had a lenten day or two at home than done a shabby and mean thing abroad. 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.