Mr. Jonas Exhibits his Presence of Mind
Phiz (Halbot K. Browne)
April 1844
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Montague was lying senseless on the road when Jonas ran to the horses' heads; and, pulling at their bridles, set them struggling and plunging with such violence as brought their hoofs at every effort nearer to the skull of the prostrate man.— Chapter 42
Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit
Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.