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A) A book has been already writ, for which the public . ow . ; (4 2 ge é ‘ ' : ’ ~ % then in Mr. Pickwick’s arms; and when ¥ 4) caer i F My “ _ » It is confidently whispered amongst the . me the introduction” ng e ‘ | - t , pa | rg ee Ergon apromp ys. * 205 : ey At + : ome | “Notes of a tri to Greenwich in the ‘Year, of | ad Thirty-Hight,” | ae gaint ge With Preface and Appendix by the Author of ‘‘A P History ig Of Thames GoHl-barges and a novel called ‘‘ The , Wapping Mystery.” Ags "PSs * ys “ara ge went—not the “ way of all flesh,” ut of all companies—viz, to the dogs, the moment Master Peter Muggins related the Muggins, senior, was so distressed at the | losss of his money, and the failure of all his | hopes in reference to the Captain, that he aes ag gene his old servant a morsel of Prohe. « e Ige 8s Ne | meat for upwards of a fortnight; and even a pigs d be wus hime me es then it is Scalinite he would not have re- An Universal Life-preserving Anti-death Society | lented, had he not discovered that the Might really Be established now with very great | aforesaid old servant had run up a score in rn ty tee RM iy! his name ai the butchers. As for Miss Aramintha, she ran away with a French Marquis, who turned out to be an Irish pauper. Mr. Sugden is now a great man about town, and is more careful of his money than he used to be: He still swears by his friend the Great Cham of Tartary, and tells some wonderful tales about his adventures in France. When applied to, a short time ' : -. | since, by a friend who was in- want of a Mr. Winkle, in imitation of his friend of | small loan, he replied in the following whom we have just taken leave, made a | terms:—“My dear fellow, I have given up solemn promise to Arabella not to travel | lending, because those vulgar people, Roths- without her in any future journeys that he | child and Baring, persist in it. But if you might undertake; and we are inclined to | want a discount, I will introduce you toa believe that he tenaciously keeps his prom- | friend, who will cash your bill on the best for whenever a coach stops at Mr. | possible terms. Draw one , for a hundred, rick’s door, and Mr, Winkle jumps out | and I will answer for it that, in less than four- of it, he invariably stops to hand his wife | and-twenty hours, you shall have twenty- from the vehicle, B% ae five in. money, twenty-five in warming pans, Mr. Nassau Siffkin renewed his acquaint- | and the remainder in crutches, wooden-legs, ance with our heroes, on their return to} and scrubbing-brushes. It was but the London; and Mrs. Siffkin—(Mrs. Weston | other day that I got a friend of mine—but who was) exhibited to Mr. Pickwick, on his | then he was a very intimate friend—fifty in first call, a large bale of linen and lace, in | money, and fifty in tomb-stones and roasting the midst of which reposed a fat baby. | jacks, at the same discounter’s,” Mrs. Siffkin kindly placed the whole bur-| And what of Mademoiselle Anastasie de Volage? By some means, the real history of which we have never been enabled to ascertain with any degree of accuracy, she ‘was liberated from prison at the end of three months. Mr. Scuttle then hired for her a small cottage in the neighborhood of Auteuil, where she resides with an old domestic whom the same gentleman also provided for her. She receives twenty pounds, or five hundred francs, every quar- ter; and four times a year only does Mr. Scuttle see her. But on each occasion he is glad to find that she is really penitent and changed in tastes as well as pursuits; and the satisfactory report is duly conveyed to Mr. Tupman, who continues to be inter- ested in her fate. We have just heard that Anastasie’s mother has lately died through excessive drinking, just as she was about to 7 Tis therefore hoped the, abuses soon will undergo ’ ; “ : ra , ay P ' friends of Mr. Snodgrass, that he received five guineas for this poem,—a rumor which the following entry in his memorandum- book seems to corroborate :—* Received five guineas this morning from Vellum, Quarto, Puff, and Company, of Paternoster Row. Lent them, 16 Mitamiey, as. 1e had procured that gentleman proceeded to amuse the child by tickling its chin, and making sundry wry faces at it, the amiable little innocent set up such a hideous squall, that Mr. Pick- wick had a head-ache for a fortnight after- wards. Indeed, down to the present moment, he is entirely deaf to all requests of mothers to take their children in his arms. Mr. William Sugden, alias Captain Hora- tio Clarence Walsingham, alias Mr. Adol- phus Crashem, having passed through a series of most interesting adventures, and experienced a phogiaand hair-breadth escapes (in reference to the treadmill and the hulks), succeeded in inveigling a rich old widow “nto the matrimonial noose. It is scarcely necessary to relate that the eminent As- phalte Gyn pany, over which he had so ably ehairman’s delinquency to his father. Mr. — a a + GoOnnicloookxs (9) (GO