Excerpt from The History of Whittington and His Cat: Shewing How From a Poor Country Boy, Destitute of Parents or Relations, He Attained Great Riches, and Was Promoted to the High and Honourable Dignity of Lord Mayor of London And he gave him leave to walk all t way by the fide of his waggon with paying any thing for his paflage, obliged little Whittington very much, as he wanted to fee London fadly for he had heard that the fieeets were pav ed ith gold, and he was willing to get abulhzl of it. But, how great was his dtfappomtment, poor boy, when he (aw the Greets covered with dirt infiead of gold, and found himfelf in a Grange place, Without food, Without friends, and without money. 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.