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Title: A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land
Author: William R. Hughes
Illustrator: F. G. Kitton
Release Date: February 25, 2010 [EBook #31394]
Language: English
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A WEEK'S TRAMP
IN
DICKENS-LAND
[Illustration: The Marshes, Cooling.]
A WEEK'S TRAMP
IN
DICKENS-LAND
TOGETHER WITH
=Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boz'=
THEREIN COLLECTED.
BY
WILLIAM R. HUGHES, F.L.S.
_WITH MORE THAN A HUNDRED
ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. G. KITTON
AND OTHER ARTISTS._
LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED.
BOSTON: ESTES AND LAURIAT.
1891.
RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON & BUNGAY.
[_All Rights reserved._]
TO
MY WIFE AND DAUGHTERS,
EMILY AND EDITH,
I DEDICATE
THIS RECORD OF "A WEEK'S TRAMP,"
TO REMIND THEM OF
THE MANY PLEASANT READINGS FROM DICKENS
WE HAVE ENJOYED TOGETHER
AT HOME.
PREFACE.
* * * * *
"'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 embarras
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