Mr. Wardle's footman
Known as "The Fat Boy"

Tony Weller A stage driver. Sam's father

Mrs. Weller His second wife

Mrs. Leo Hunter A lady with a fondness for knowing
celebrated persons

Mr. Peter Magnus One of Mr. Pickwick's traveling
acquaintances

Nupkins Mayor of Ipswich

Mrs. Nupkins His wife

Miss Nupkins His daughter

Ben Allen }
} Medical students
Bob Sawyer }

Arabella Allen Ben's pretty sister

Sergeant Buzfuz Mrs. Bardell's lawyer

Mr. Dowler One of Mr. Pickwick's acquaintances
at Bath

Mrs. Dowler His wife

Mr. Angelo Cyrus Bantam A society leader at Bath

Mary Nupkins's pretty housemaid

THE PICKWICK PAPERS

I

THE PICKWICKIANS BEGIN THEIR ADVENTURES
THEY MEET MR. ALFRED JINGLE, AND
WINKLE IS INVOLVED IN A DUEL

Once upon a time, in London, there was a club called "The Pickwick
Club." Mr. Samuel Pickwick, its founder and chairman, was a benevolent,
simple-hearted old gentleman of some wealth, with a taste for science.
He delighted to invent the most profound theories, to explain the most
ordinary happenings and to write long papers to be read before the Club.
He had a large bald head, and eyes that twinkled behind round
spectacles, and he made a speech with one hand under his coat tails and
the other waving in the air.

His fellow members looked upon Mr. Pickwick as a very great man, and
when he proposed that he and three others form a "Corresponding
Society," which should travel about and forward to the club accounts of
their adventures, the idea was at once adopted.

The three that Mr. Pickwick chose were named Tupman, Snodgrass and
Winkle. Tupman was middle-aged with a double chin and was so fat that
for years he had not seen the watch chain that crossed his silk
waistcoat. But he had a youthful, romantic