Sam Weller’s Introduction.--Old Weller at Doctor’s Commons.--Sam
on a Legal Case.--Self-acting Ink.--Out with It.--Sam’s old
White Hat.--Independent Voters.--Proud o’ the Title.--The Weller
Philosophy.--The Twopenny Rope.--Job Trotter’s Tears.--Sam’s Misgivings
as to Mr. Pickwick.--Clear the Way for the Wheelbarrow.--Unpacking the
Lunch Hamper.--Battledore and Shuttlecock.--A True Londoner.--Spoiling
the Beadle.--Old Weller’s Remedy for the Gout.--Sam on Cabs.--Poverty
and Oysters.--Old Weller on Pikes.--Sam’s Power of Suction.--Veller
and Gammon.--Sam as Master of the Ceremonies.--Sam before Mr.
Nupkins.--Sam’s Introduction to Mary and the Cook.--Something
behind the Door.--Sam and Master Bardell.--Good Wishes to Messrs.
Dodson and Fogg.--Sam and his Mother-in-law.--The Shepherd’s Water
Rates.--Stiggins as an Arithmetician.--Sam and the Fat Boy.--Compact
and Comfortable.--Apologue of the Fat Man’s Watch.--Medical
Students.--Sam Subpœnaed.--Disappearance of the “Sassage” Maker.--Sam
Weller’s Valentine.--Old Weller’s Plot.--Tea Drinking at Brick
Lane.--The Soldier’s Evidence Inadmissible.--Sam’s “Wision” Limited.--A
Friendly “Swarry.”--The Killebeate.--Sam and the Surly Groom.--Mr.
Pickwick’s Dark Lantern.--The Little Dirty-faced Man.--Old Weller
Inexorable.--Away with Melancholy.--Post Boys and Donkeys.--A
Vessel.--Old Weller’s Threat.--Sam’s Dismissal of the Fat Boy.--Is she
a “Widder”?--Bill Blinder’s Request.--The Watch-box Boy.
“Some write well, but he writes Weller.”--_Epigram on Dickens._
“Some of the best sayings of the immortal Sam and his sportive parent
are collected here. The book may be taken up for a few minutes with
the certainty of affording amusement, and it can be carried away in
the pocket.”--_Literary World._
“It was a very good idea ... the extracts are very humorous ... here
nothing is missed.”--_Glasgow Herald._
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