'They are very beautiful,' said Mr Pickwick, as the juveniles turned

away, after being presented.

'They are very like their mamma, Sir,' said Mr Pott, majestically.

'Oh, you naughty man,' exclaimed Mrs. Leo Hunter, playfully tapping

the editor's arm with her fan (Minerva with a fan!).

Why now, my dear Mrs. Hunter,' said Mr Pott, who was trumpeter in

ordinary at the Den, 'you know that when your picture was in the

exhibition of the Royal Academy, last year, everybody inquired

whether it was intended for you, or your youngest daughter; for you

were so much alike that there was no telling the difference between

you.'

Well, and if they did, why need you repeat it, before strangers?' said

Mrs. Leo Hunter, bestowing another tap on the slumbering lion of the

Eatanswill GAZETTE.

'Count, count,' screamed Mrs. Leo Hunter to a well-whiskered

individual in a foreign uniform, who was passing by.

Ah! you want me?' said the count, turning back.

I want to introduce two very clever people to each other,' said Mrs.

Leo Hunter. 'Mr Pickwick, I have great pleasure in introducing you to

Count Smorltork.' She added in a hurried whisper to Mr Pickwick -

The famous foreigner - gathering materials for his great work on

England - hem! - Count Smorltork, Mr Pickwick.' Mr Pickwick saluted

the count with all the reverence due to so great a man, and the count

drew forth a set of tablets.

What you say, Mrs. Hunt?' inquired the count, smiling graciously on

the gratified Mrs. Leo Hunter, 'Pig Vig or Big Vig - what you call -

lawyer - eh? I see - that is it. Big Vig' - and the count was proceeding

to enter Mr Pickwick in his tablets, as a gentleman of the long robe,

who derived his name from the profession to which he belonged, when

Mrs. Leo Hunter interposed.

'No, no, count,' said the lady, 'Pick-wick.'

'Ah, ah, I see,' replied the count. 'Peek - christian name; Weeks -

surname; good, ver good. Peek Weeks. How you do, Weeks?'

'Quite well, I thank you,' replied Mr Pickwick, with all his usual

affability. 'Have you been long in England?'

'Long - ver long time - fortnight - more.'

The Pickwick Papers