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Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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nd to you directly. We can tell at once from this that Sam is goingto give us much amusement, and he does. Indeed,Sam never speaks without raising a smile, andmore often a hearty laugh. His stories are al-ways comical, if they are not always strictly true,as, for instance, his explanation of what the two-penny rope was. The twopenny rope, sir, replied Mr. Weller,is just a cheap lodgin-house, where the beds istwopence a night. What do they call a bed a rope for? saidMr. Pickwick. SAM DESCRIBES A STRANGE SORTOF BED TO MR. PICKWICK Bless your innocence, sir, that ant it! repliedSam. When the lady and genlmn as keeps thehotel first begun business, they used to make thebeds on the floor; but this would nt do at noprice, cos instead o taking a moderate two-pennorth o sleep, the lodgers used to lie therehalf the day. So now they has two ropes, boutsix foot apart, and three from the floor, whichgoes right down the room; and the beds are madeof slips of coarse .sacking, stretched across em. 52
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IX—5 1HE TWO WELLERS.53 54 SOME STORIES OF CHARLES DICKENS Well? said Mr. Pickwick. Well, said Mr. Weller, the adwantage o theplan s hobvious. At six oclock every morninthey lets go the ropes at one end, and down fallsall the lodgers. Consequence is, that being thor-oughly waked, they get up wery quietly, and walkaway! SAM WELLERS FAMOUS APPEAR-ANCE IN THE WITNESS-BOX We could fill a large part of this volume withstories of Sam Weller alone. He is really the lifeand soul of the Pickwick Papers, and thosefault-finding people who will tell you he is only alow, vulgar cockney are not to be considered assound critics. He is a cockney; he is certainlynot a gentleman, and he is by no means refined;but he is unfailingly sharp in his remarks, andoften extremely witty; and he is certainly a goodand useful servant to Mr. Pickwick. It is quiteclear that Dickens loved his Weller, and realizedthat he had found in him the very best way of ex-pressing the native wit of the lower-class Londoner,who

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