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Southland Times, Issue 1584, 28 May 1872, Page 3

A Stoby ov Stokies.— " Oliver Twist," i who had some very" Hard Times" in "The ( Battle of Life," and having been saved 1 from "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" 1 by " Our Mutual Friend," " Nicholas ( Nickleby," had just finished relating " A i Tale of Two Cities" to " Martin Chuzzle- 1 wit," during which time " The Cricket on 1 the Hearth" had been chirping right i merrily, while " The Chimes" from the 1 adjacent church were heard, when ] •'Seven Poor Travellers" commenced singing a " Christmas Carol ;" " Barnaby Eudge" then arrived from "The Old Curiosity Shop" with " Some Pictures from Italy" and "Sketches by Boz" to < show " Little Dorrit," who was busy with *' The Pickwick Papers ;" when i "David Copperfield," who bad been i taking " American Notes," entered and i informed the company that the " Great^ Expectations" of "Dombey and Son"' ' regarding " Mrs Lirriper's Legacy" had i not been realised, and that he had seen ' " Boots at the Holly Tree Inn" taking '. " Somebody's Luggage" to " Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" in a street that has < "No Thoroughfare" opposite "Bleak ; House," where " The Haunted Man," i who had just given one of" Dr Marigold's Presciptions" to an " Uncommercial < Traveller," was brooding over " The i Myatery of Edwia Drood." ,