THE PICKWICK PAPERS (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)

A CHRISTMAS CAROL 'I care not for Spring; on his fickle wing Let the

for, between ourselves, I flatter myself he is an original, and I am rather proud of him.'

wery best intentions, as the gen'l'm'n said ven he run away from his wife 'cos she seemed unhappy with him,'

'If I ever do come back, and mix myself up with these people again,'thought Mr. Winkle, as he wended his way to the Peacock, 'I shall deserve to be horsewhipped myself—that's all.'

The best sitting-room at Manor Farm was a good, long, dark-panelled room with a high chimney-piece, and a capacious chimney, up which you could have driven one of the new patent cabs, wheels and all. At the upper end of the room, seated in a shady bower of holly and evergreens were the two best fiddlers, and the only harp, in all Muggleton. In all

The process of being washed in the night air, and rough-dried in a closet, is as dangerous as it is peculiar.

'Now, gen'l'm'n, "fall on," as the English said to the French when they fixed bagginets.'

'That's wot we call tying it up in a small parcel,

So I've only this here one little bit of adwice to give you. If ever you gets to up'ards o' fifty, and feels disposed to go a-marryin' anybody—no matter who—jist you shut yourself up in your own room, if you've got one, and pison yourself off hand. Hangin's wulgar, so don't you have nothin' to say to that. Pison yourself, Samivel, my boy, pison you