WELLERISMS
Reading edition
From “Pickwick” and “Master Humphrey’s Clock.”
Selected by Charles F. Rideal. Edited, with an Introduction, by Charles Kent, author of “The Humour and Pathos of Charles Dickens.”
Among the Contents are:—
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.
One vol., crown 8vo., 400 pages, cloth, price 6s.