The Cheapside Apprentice

Excerpt from The Cheapside Apprentice

When Potter's apprenticeship ex pired, instead of improving his fortune by throwing it into trade, he plunged at once into all the vices Of the town. He possessed a plausible kind of prate, which caused him to be appointed chairman to our club, which was chiefly composed of clerks and ap prentice boys. Potter's principal'ex cellence consisted in singing a merry song, telling an indecent story, and teaching his hearers to laugh at mora lity, and set all religion at defiance; for religion, he maintained, was only an oldwoman's tale, invented by cun ning heads to keep children and fools in order.

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