Pickwick Abroad: A Companion to the Pickwick Papers — page 137: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

| Ab, 9 d * ;, A yo a, h » ™ bi ty 3 ahy Pe le a ied ms ! . a ? PICKWICK ABROAD. | ivate for a moment that you shan’t. all i vishes to no is vether you don’t vish you may get it. ~ “now raly, mi fine. feller, vi doesn’t you - draw it rayther more milder, as the gen’le- man said to the barmade ven she drew him half a pint o’ Mukes’s best. you thinks no von can sea but yourself an that other peepel has got nothin’ but dust in their hi. vereas ve all seas as far into a brik vall as you. pon my vord you're a wery nice little boy, air you not now ? » , “vot is all this preshus bother about ass- faltes and orsefaltes as you're takin’ about. an then to tri 2 lett in the pore guvner as vos like a farthur’to you Fengyon vos in trubble in saint pellagee. 1m raly ashamed on you. it ain't manners, as the owersear said to the porpor vich asked tvice for supe. “now the fect o’ the caise is this here. your letter cum this mornin. the other genlemen is all gon to brekfust vith scuttle in the roo tayboo. but “ nose our an ritine soi jist pepes into the billey $60 an Fics a omen vod yos harder than the art of,a pore lor commisshunner vell ipthort, thts vos rayther qvere, so i looks a little deeper an’ 1 sees vot youre up 2 ina minit. as i takes the guvners intrist wery much to art i opins the hepistle an’ redes him from the dait to the naim at the eend. if i ad not none your an ritin i shud a no your triks. so,i didn’t sho the letter to the guvner but ansers you-insted. nothin lik doin things soot ale as the italian markiss observed to the brayvo: vich offered to lull his elder brother. ‘ - “ sonow, mi fine feller, i thinks as how i’ve settled your hashe. vi you must think as how that trees isn’t grener than pickvick. god Bless your hignorents. if pickvick’s grene sam veller’s not. like mas’er like man don’t inwariably stand good. so no more at present, as the parson said ven he’d preched the congregashun aslepe, from your wery faythful servant to command. “SAMIVEL VELLER. “if you don’t like to pay the postige you needn't take it in. there has bin a many wery affectionate Inquiries about you since your affair vith mister snodgrass and the young countess, dumong, the jonny darmy, ud like to shake ans vith you wery much but ?m afeered that if he vonce got you his love is so grate, hs vouldn’t like to part. vith you. this postscrip is rayther longer than hi ment it to be. sori jist countersine it as that feller roland says on his makassar ile bottles. “S. VELLER, to vit.” “then it’s nothing about the an guvner an Any good news ?” ing iired Mr. Welladay, when Captain Walsingham had terminated the perusal of his letter. Me ies “ No—no,” returned that gentleman, very deliberately folding up the epistle and con- veying it to his pocket. “It is only a pri- vate communication from my friend, the ~ ee of Foreign Affairs” = “ Oh! indeed,” exclaimed Mr. Welladay ; asphalte con- “ Nothing,” answered the worthy Chair- man, looking very much at that moment as if his correspondence ought to be with the Prefect of Police imstead of the Minister. ot Foreign Affairs, which it very likely would have been had he existed within the juris- diction of the first-mentioned authority. “Matters having been brought to this very satisfactory pomt, and Mr. Muggins being ? too much overcome with» liquor to give any « acceptances at that moment, the meeting broke up; and Mr. Muggins himself was conveyed home on a shutter. i © ah SG CHAPTER XXVL ~— The memorable interview between Captain Hora- tio Clarence Walsingham and Mr. Peter Mug- gins.—Establishment of the Company. In order that no time might be lost in establishing the celebrated Universal Stone- expelling and Asphaltum-substituting Kquitable Company upon a_ permanent foundation, its eminent originator, Captain Horatio Clarence Walsingham, sallied forth on the morning after the famous meet ing which we described in a previous chap- ter, and bent his way towards the abode of Mr. Muggins. © Mr. Muggins embellished with his name ~ and person, as well.as ‘with his extensive family of thirteen children, an eight-roomed house situate in Upper Stamford Street. © He himself occupied the ground-floor and the attics. The first floor front, and the bed-room above, were let to a halfpay major in the army, who very often enter- tained a quiet little party of ten or a dozen superannuated military friends, upon which occasions a great many cigars were smoked and a considerable quantity of gin discussed. Indeed, had not the house been a private one, it would have suffered the penalties ot F LOO) @) ‘ (CO) (GO