tion>William R. Hughes
A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land
Together with Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boz' Therein Collected
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066238674
Table of Contents
LIST
OF
ILLUSTRATIONS
A PRELIMINARY TRAMP IN LONDON.
RICHARD WATTS'S CHARITY, ROCHESTER.
AN AFTERNOON AT GAD'S HILL PLACE.
AYLESFORD, TOWN MALLING, AND MAIDSTONE.
BROADSTAIRS, MARGATE, AND CANTERBURY.
COBHAM PARK AND HALL, THE LEATHER BOTTLE, SHORNE, CHALK, AND THE DOVER ROAD.
A FINAL TRAMP IN ROCHESTER AND LONDON.
PREFACE.
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"'I should like to show you a series of eight articles, Sir, that have appeared in the Eatanswill Gazette. I think I may venture to say that you would not be long in establishing your opinions on a firm and solid basis, Sir.'
"'I dare say I should turn very blue long before I got to the end of them,' responded Bob.
"Mr. Pott looked dubiously at Bob Sawyer for some seconds, and turning to Mr. Pickwick said:—
"'You have seen the literary articles which have appeared at intervals in the Eatanswill Gazette in the course of the last three months, and which have excited such general—I may say such universal—attention and admiration?'
"'Why,' replied Mr. Pickwick, slightly embarrassed by the question, 'the fact is, I have been so much engaged in other ways, that I really have not had an opportunity of perusing them.'
"'You
