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Title: Works
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, limited
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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f you please. Bio wed if the genlmn wornt a gettin up on the wrongside, whispered a grinning post-boy to the inexpressiblygratified waiter. Mr. Winkle, thus instructed, climbed into his saddle, withabout as much difficulty as he would have experienced in gettingup the side of a first-rate man-of-war. All right ■? inquired Mr. Pickwick, with an inward pre-sentiment that it was all wrong. All right, replied Mr. Winkle faintly. Let em go, cried the hostler,— Hold him in, sir, andaway went the chaise, and the saddle-horse, with Mr. Pickwickon the box of the one, and Mr. Winkle on the back of theother, to the dehght and gratification of the whole inn yard. What makes him go sideways ? said Mr. Snodgrass in thebia, to Mr. Winkle in the saddle. I cant imagine, rephed Mr. Winkle. His horse wasdrifting up the street in the most mysterious manner—sidefirst, with his head toward one side of the way, and his tailtowards the other. Mr. Pickwick had no leisure to observe either this or any 68
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^;^/<o. ,,^W0, /:^Ay^ /^M^s^A1^..a:^^^i^ ^^ii^eo^. ORDBE OF TRAVELLING DISARRANGED other particular, the whole of his faculties being concentratedin the management of the animal attached to the chaise, whodisplayed various peculiarities, highly interesting to a bystander,but by no means equally amusing to any one seated behind him.Besides constantly jerking his head up, in a very unpleasant anduncomfortable manner, and tugging at the reins to an extentwhich rendered it a matter of great difficulty for Mr. Pickwickto hold them, he had a singular propensity for darting suddenlyevery now and then to the side of the road, then stopping short,and then rushing forward for some minutes, at a speed whichit was wholly impossible to control. What can he mean by this ? said Mr. Snodgrass, when thehorse had executed this manoeuvre for the twentieth time. I dont know, replied Mr. Tupman; it looks very likeshying, dont it ? Mr. Snodgrass was about to reply, when hewas interrupted by a shout from

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