Charles Dickens Quote

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.


Sketches by Boz: Illustration of Every-day Life and Every-day People (ed. 1839)


He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and...

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and...

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and...

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and...