O, Weller!

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I don't think anyone of you read Pickwick Papers cover to cover...you folks just didn't have the leisure to wade through the fat book.

Couple of years ago I blogged this limerick:

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What the Dickens!

"Charles Dickens's former home Bleak House in Broadstaris, Kent is up for sale for 2 million Pounds Sterling": New Report

The stairs may be broad, but the house is bleak,
The walls are broke, and the roof will leak;
The buyer will be taunted
That the house is haunted
By the ghosts of Winkle, Weller & Mr. Peakweak!

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Without doubt the most charming character in the book is Sam Weller, next only to his father Tony Weller: They speak the London lingo of the early 1800s and its metro- humor.

Here is a compilation of Wellerisms: Enjoy!

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1. "No, no; reg'lar rotation, as Jack Ketch said, wen he tied the men up."
2. ". . . what the devil do you want with me, as the man said wen he see the ghost?"
3. ". . . out vith it, as the father said to the child, wen he swallowed a farden."
4. "He wants you particklar; no one else'll do, as the Devil's private secretary said ven he fetched avay Doctor Faustus."
5. "Proud o' the title, as the Living Skellinton said, ven they show'd him."

6. "There's nothin' so refreshin' as sleep, sir, as the servant-girl said

afore she drank the egg-cupful o' laudanum."

7. "If you walley my precious life don't upset me, as the gentl'm'n said to

the driver when they was a carryin' him to Tyburn."

8. "Now, gen'l'm'n, 'fall on, as the English said to the French when they

fixed bagginets.

9. ". . . I think he's the wictim o' connubiality, as Blue Beard's domestic

chaplain said, with a tear of pity, ven he buried him."

10. "That's what I call a self-evident proposition, as the dog's-meat man

said, when the housemaid told him he warn't a gentleman."

11. "You know what the counsel said, Sammy, as defended the gen'l'm'n

as beat his wife with a poker, venever he got jolly. 'And arter all, my

Lord,' says he, 'it's a amable weakness."'

12. "It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they

alway say in Turkey, ven they cuts the wrong man's head off."

13. "Business first, pleasure arterwards, as King Richard the Third said

wen he stabbed t'other king in the Tower, afore he smothered the

babbies."

14. "Werry glad to see you, indeed, and hope our acquaintance may be a

long 'un, as the gen'l'm'n said to the fi' pun' note."

15. "Werry sorry to 'casion any personal inconvenience, ma'am, as the

house-breaker said to the old lady when he put her on the fire...."

16. "All good feelin', sir--the wery best intentions, as the gen'l'm'n said

ven he run away from his wife 'cos she seemed unhappy with him."

17. ". . . vether it's worth while goin' through so much, to learn so little,

as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a

matter o' taste.

18. ". . . now we look compact and comfortable, as the father said ven he

cut his little boy's head off, to cure him o' squintin'."

19. "Fine time for them as is well wropped up, as the Polar Bear said to

himself, ven he was practising his skating."

20. ".I'm pretty tough, that's vun consolation, as the wery old turkey

remarked wen the farmer said he was afeered he should be obliged

to kill him for the London market.

21. "Oh, quite enough to get, sir, as the soldier said ven they ordered

him three hundred and fifty lashes."

22. "Hooroar for the principle, as the money-lender said ven he vouldn't

renew the bill."

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