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The Uncommercial Traveller

The Uncommercial Traveller

Charles Dickens

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The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens.

Chapter 1 HIS GENERAL LINE OF BUSINESS

Allow me to introduce myself-first negatively.

No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me. No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of public entertainment in the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my journeys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the bill; when I come home from my journeys, I never get any commission. I know nothing about prices, and should have no idea, if I were put to it, how to wheedle a man into ordering something he doesn't want. As a town traveller, I am never to be seen driving a vehicle externally like a young and volatile pianoforte van, and internally like an oven in which a number of flat boxes are baking in layers. As a country traveller, I am rarely to be found in a gig, and am never to be encountered by a pleasure train, waiting on the platform of a branch station, quite a Druid in the midst of a light Stonehenge of samples.

And yet-proceeding now, to introduce myself positively-I am both a town traveller and a country traveller, and am always on the road. Figuratively speaking, I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my rooms in Covent-garden, London-now about the city streets: now, about the country by-roads-seeing many little things, and some great things, which, because they interest me, I think may interest others.

These are my chief credentials as the Uncommercial Traveller.

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The Uncommercial Traveller
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Chapter 1 HIS GENERAL LINE OF BUSINESS

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Chapter 2 THE SHIPWRECK

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Chapter 3 WAPPING WORKHOUSE

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Chapter 4 TWO VIEWS OF A CHEAP THEATRE

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Chapter 5 POOR MERCANTILE JACK

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Chapter 6 REFRESHMENTS FOR TRAVELLERS

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Chapter 7 TRAVELLING ABROAD

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Chapter 8 THE GREAT TASMANIA'S CARGO

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Chapter 9 CITY OF LONDON CHURCHES

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Chapter 10 SHY NEIGHBOURHOODS

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Chapter 11 TRAMPS

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Chapter 12 DULLBOROUGH TOWN

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Chapter 13 NIGHT WALKS

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Chapter 14 CHAMBERS

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Chapter 15 NURSE'S STORIES

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Chapter 16 ARCADIAN LONDON

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Chapter 17 THE ITALIAN PRISONER

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Chapter 18 THE CALAIS NIGHT MAIL

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Chapter 19 SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF MORTALITY

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Chapter 20 BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

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Chapter 21 THE SHORT-TIMERS

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Chapter 22 BOUND FOR THE GREAT SALT LAKE

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Chapter 23 THE CITY OF THE ABSENT

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Chapter 24 AN OLD STAGE-COACHING HOUSE

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Chapter 25 THE BOILED BEEF OF NEW ENGLAND

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Chapter 26 CHATHAM DOCKYARD

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Chapter 27 IN THE FRENCH-FLEMISH COUNTRY

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Chapter 28 MEDICINE MEN OF CIVILISATION

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Chapter 29 TITBULL'S ALMS-HOUSES

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Chapter 30 THE RUFFIAN

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Chapter 31 ABOARD SHIP

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Chapter 32 A SMALL STAR IN THE EAST

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Chapter 33 A LITTLE DINNER IN AN HOUR

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Chapter 34 MR. BARLOW

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Chapter 35 ON AN AMATEUR BEAT

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Chapter 36 A FLY-LEAF IN A LIFE

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Chapter 37 A PLEA FOR TOTAL ABSTINENCE

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