A CURIOUS CATALOGUE.
The following curious catalogue of • Dicken's works is worthy of jnWrvation :-' Oliver Twist/ who liatrsorae ' very 1 Hard Times 1 in the ' Battle of • Life,' and lias beon saved from ,' Tlie • Wreck of the Golden Maryby' Our Mutual Friend,'' Nicholas Nickleby,' ■ had just fimahed reading'A Talo of . Two Cities' to ' Maitin Chuzzlewit,' during which time' The Cricket on the lioarth 'hadboon chirping merrily, • while ' The Chimes' from the adjacent churches were, hoard, when : ' Seven Poor Travellers' commenced . . singing" A Christmas Carol." ' Barnaby Ku'dge ':then arrived from 'iCheV. -Old Curiosity Shop ' with soma' : £ures from Italy' and 'Sketches by.Boz' , ■to show 'Little Dorrit,' who was. busy. - with 'Pickwick Papers,' when' David Coppel'field,' who. had been' taking.:-:. ' American Notes,' entored and in- • formed the company that the 'Great Expectations' of' Doiiibey and Sqi)' ' c regarding ' s Mrs Lirriper's Legacy' had not boon realised; and that, lie had seen •' Boots -at the HoUy-Tree Inn' .takhigj' Somebody's Lirriper's Lodgings' in'; a sttepWhat has j'No Thoroughfare,' oppoHito ' Bleak Hoilso,' where ' The Haunted. • ; Man," who had just-given oneof.'.Dr Marigold's' prescriptions to an commercial Traveller,' was brooding ■■-. over' The Mystery,iof Edwin Dropd.' • '
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2717, 5 October 1887, Page 2
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188A CURIOUS CATALOGUE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2717, 5 October 1887, Page 2
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