Chapter IV: Section D: Statistics

Supplementary Section, E. Umbugology and Ditchwaterisics

The Pantomime of Life

551

Some Particulars Concerning a Lion

558

Mr. Robert Bolton

563

Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child

567

THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER

I

His General Line of Business

1

II

The Shipwreck

2

III

Wapping Workhouse

14

IV

Two Views of a Cheap Theatre

23

V

Poor Mercantile Jack

31

VI

Refreshments for Travellers

42

VII

Travelling Abroad

49

VIII

The Great Tasmania’s Cargo

59

IX

City of London Churches

67

X

Shy Neighbourhoods

75

XI

Tramps

84

XII

Dullborough Town

94

XIII

Night Walks

102

XIV

Chambers

110

XV

Nurse’s Stories

120

XVI

Arcadian London

129

XVII

The Italian Prisoner

137

XVIII

The Calais Night Mail

145

XIX

Some Recollections of Mortality

152

XX

Birthday Celebrations

160

XXI

The Short-Timers

168

XXII

Bound for the Great Salt Lake

178

XXIII

The City of the Absent

188

XXIV

An Old Stage-coaching House

195

XXV

The Boiled Beef of New England

202

XXVI

Chatham Dockyard

210

XXVII

In the French-Flemish Country

217

XXVIII

Medicine Men of Civilisation

227

XXIX

Titbull’s Alms-Houses

234

XXX

The Ruffian

253

XXXI

Aboard Ship

249

XXXII

A Small Star in the East

258

XXXIII

A Little Dinner in an Hour

267

XXXIV

Mr. Barlow

273

XXXV

On an Amateur Beat

278

XXXVI

A Fly-Leaf in a Life

284

XXXVII

A Plea for Total Abstinence

288 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER

Time and his Wife

Frontispiece

A Cheap Theatre

24

The City Personage

72

Titbull’s Alms-Houses

242

SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES By Charles Dickens CONTENTS

PAGE

An Urgent Remonstrance, &c.

447

The Young Couple

451

The Formal Couple

455

The Loving Couple

458

The Contradictory Couple

463

The Couple Who Dote Upon Their Children

466

The Cool Couple

471

The Plausible Couple

474

The Nice Little Couple

478

The Egotistical Couple

481

The Couple Who Coddle Themselves

485

The Old Couple

489

Conclusion

493

BARNABY RUDGE A Tale Of The Riots Of ‘Eighty

by Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Chapter 1