ticklishfossil
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I am reading the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop and discovered a tickle scene.
A lady who owns a wax museum is describing 1 of the wax figures. Apparently, it was of a man who tickled 14 wives to death and was hanged for it. (They didn't hang him after the first one?)
This is the passage:
"That ladies and gentleman," said Mrs. Jarley, "is Jasper Packlemerton of atrocious memory, who courted and married 14 wives, and destroyed them all by tickling the soles of their feet when they was sleeping in the consciousness of innocence and virtue. On being brought to the scaffold and asked if he was sorry for what he had done, he replied yes, he was sorry for having let 'em off so easy, and hoped all Christian husbands would pardon him the offence. Let this be a warning to all young ladies to be particular in the character of the gentlemen of their choice. Observe that his fingers is curled as if in the act of tickling, and that his face is represented with a wink, as he appeared when committing his barbarous murders."
A lady who owns a wax museum is describing 1 of the wax figures. Apparently, it was of a man who tickled 14 wives to death and was hanged for it. (They didn't hang him after the first one?)
This is the passage:
"That ladies and gentleman," said Mrs. Jarley, "is Jasper Packlemerton of atrocious memory, who courted and married 14 wives, and destroyed them all by tickling the soles of their feet when they was sleeping in the consciousness of innocence and virtue. On being brought to the scaffold and asked if he was sorry for what he had done, he replied yes, he was sorry for having let 'em off so easy, and hoped all Christian husbands would pardon him the offence. Let this be a warning to all young ladies to be particular in the character of the gentlemen of their choice. Observe that his fingers is curled as if in the act of tickling, and that his face is represented with a wink, as he appeared when committing his barbarous murders."
