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Mac walters is terrible3/7/2023 ![]() As a boy it was my delight to go on board the ships when they arrived. Our wharf was that which stands next to the Tower stairs: the counting-house was on the wharf: there the clerks worked daily from seven in the morning till eight at night. The House in which Sir Peter was the Senior Partner possessed a fleet of West Indiamen which traded between the Port of London and Jamaica, Barbadoes, and the other English Islands, taking out all kinds of stuffs, weapons, implements, clothing, wine, silks, gloves, and everything else that the planters could want, and returning laden with sugar in bags, mahogany, arrack, and whatever else the islands produce. In the year 1760 or thereabouts, everybody knew the name of Sir Peter Halliday, Merchant. ![]() ![]() HOW I GOT INTO THE KING'S BENCH CHAPTER I
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