Identifier: cu31924013471481 (find matches)
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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orching the mob with a look of pity for their misguidedminds, at which they laughed more boisterously than ever. Silence! roared the mayors attendants. Whiffin, proclaim silence, said the mayor, with an air ofpomp befitting his lofty station. In obedience to this commandthe crier performed another concerto on the bell, whereupon agentleman in the crowd called out muffins; which occasionedanother laugh. Gentlemen, said the mayor, at as loud a pitch as he couldpossibly force his voice to, Gentlemen. Brother electors ofthe Borough of Eatanswill. We are met here to-day for thepurpose of choosing a representative in the room of ourlate— Here the mayor was interrupted by a voice in the crowd. Success to the mayor! cried the voice, and may henever desert the nail and sarspan business, as he got hismoney by. This allusion to the professional pursuits of the orator wasreceived with a storm of delight, which, with a bell accom-paniment, rendered the remainder of his speech inaudible, with 192
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. 2^.; cV/yy-/7^v/,/J Sa/^/nMS-o/l:- SPEECHES OF THE CANDIDATES the exception of the concluding sentence, in which he thankedthe meeting for the patient attention with which they hadheard him throughout, — an expression of gratitude whichelicited another burst of mirth, of about a q^uarter of anhours duration. Next, a tall thin gentleman, in a very stiff white neckerchief,after being repeatedly desired by the crowd to send a boyhome, to ask whether he hadnt left his woice under thepiUow, begged to nominate a fit and proper person to repre-sent them in Parliament. And when he said it was HoratioFizkin, Esquire, of Fizkin Lodge, near Eatanswill, the Fizkin-ites applauded, and the Slumkeyites groaned, so long, and soloudly, that both he and the seconder might have sungcomic songs in heu of speaking, without anybodys being abit the wiser. The friends of Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, haA^ng had theirinnings, a little choleric, pink-faced man stood forward to pro-pose another fit and proper pe

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