25. The illustration required is in Chapter LV.

26. See Chapters XXXVIII. and XXXIII. “_Fanteeg_, a worry or bustle.

Also, ill-humour.—_Various Dialects_.”—HALLIWELL. “Prooshan blue”

probably refers to the colour of dress-coats. “Which gentleman of your

party wears a bright blue dress-coat?” enquires The Boots, in ‘Pickwick,’

Chapter II. Thus Sam Weller’s “Prooshan Blue” is a finely-dressed fellow

of the Pickwick-Weller period.

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