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The Uncommercial Traveller, Master Humphrey's Clock, New Christmas Stories, General Index of Characters and Their Appearances
The Uncommercial Traveller Master Humphrey's Clock New Christmas Stories General Index of Characters and Their Appearances Author:Charles Dickens Subtitle: Familiar Sayings From Dickens's Works ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: Hurd and Houghton Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It ... more »has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: VI. REFRESHMENTS FOR TRAVELLERS. In the late high winds I was blown to a great many places -- and indeed, wind or no wind, I generally have extensive transactions on hand in the article of Air -- but I have not been blown to any English place lately, and I very seldom have blown to any English place in my life, where I could get anything good to eat and drink in five minutes, or where, if I sought it, I was received with a welcome. This is a curious thing to consider. But before (stimulated by my own experiences and the representations of many fellow-travellers of every uncommercial and commercial degree) I consider it further, I mast utter a passing word of wonder concerning high winds. I wonder why metropolitan gales always blow so hard at Walworth. I cannot imagine what Walworth has done, to bring such windy punishment upon itself, as I never fail to find recorded in the newspapers when the wind has blown at all hard. Brixton seems to have something on its conscience; Peckham suffers more than a virtuous Peckham might be supposed to deserve ; the howling neighborhood of Deptford figures largely in the accounts of the ingenious gentlemen who are out in every wind that blows, and to whom it is an ill high wind that blows no good ; but, there can hardly be any Walworth left bythis time. It must surely be blown away. I have read of more chimney-stacks and house-copings coming down with terrific sma...« less