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walk to Woolwich. In this voyage we lost our 

 oar. 



" Wednesday, 13th.- Printed some bills to find the 

 oar lost yesterday by George Pocock and myself. 



" Friday, 15th. Attempted to reach Dartford,but got 

 no farther than Greenhithe with George Pocock. 



"Saturday, 16th. Cherries IJeZ. per pound in the 

 market. 



" Monday, 1 8^. Fine. Walked to Dartf ord by way 

 of Greenhithe, and fell in company with Mrs. Backley, 

 or Bagley (whose husband is of Apothecaries' Hall), 

 who related a remarkable story of her child, about 

 seven years old, falling down a well at Northfleet last 

 year, and in falling pulled the well lid down, and so 

 was hid in the well about two hours, until a woman 

 came to draw water, when the child cried out, ' I am 

 in the bucket, draw me up ;' but when nearly up the 

 rope broke and he fell to the bottom again, where he 

 remained until a new rope was got and a person 

 obtained to go down, who brought the child up. The 

 child is now alive at the same house, behind the India 

 Arms, where the accident happened last year ! 



" Thursday, 21 st. The walking-man Wright, aged 

 fifty-eight, is passing through. He has a shuffling walk. 

 He starts from the Montpelier Gardens, Walworth, 

 through Gravesend to the twenty-third mile-stone, and 

 returns to the above place ; thus making fifty miles a 

 day at fifteen hours per day for fourteen successive 

 days. 



"Saturday, 23rd Dull; close. My stuffed fish 

 gives out moisture. It does so yearly. Mr. Turpin, 

 an acquaintance of Mr. Elliot, New Road, called and 

 bought articles. 



