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Index
Cover
About the Author/Editor
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
A NOTE ON THE TEXTS
A DICKENS CHRONOLOGY
SELECTED JOURNALISM 1850–1870
PERSONAL
A Christmas Tree
Our School
Lying Awake
Where We Stopped Growing
Gone Astray
An Unsettled Neighbourhood
Personal
New Year’s Day
Dullborough Town
Night Walks
Chambers
Nurse’s Stories
Some Recollections of Mortality
Birthday Celebrations
TRAVELLING ABROAD
A Narrative of Extraordinary Suffering
Our Watering-Place
A Flight
Fire and Snow
Our French Watering-Place
Out of Town
Railway Dreaming
Out of the Season
Refreshments for Travellers
Travelling Abroad
Shy Neighbourhoods
Arcadian London
The Calais Night Mail
Chatham Dockyard
SLEEP TO STARTLE US
A Walk in a Workhouse
Detective Police
A Paper-Mill
Three ‘Detective’ Anecdotes
Railway Strikes
Bill-Sticking
Spitalfields
On Duty With Inspector Field
A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
A Sleep to Startle Us
A Plated Article
Down With the Tide
H. W.
A Nightly Scene in London
Wapping Workhouse
A Small Star in the East
On an Amateur Beat
INSULARITIES
Pet Prisoners
A Poor Man’s Tale of a Patent
Lively Turtle
Red Tape
A Monument of French Folly
Trading in Death
Proposals for Amusing Posterity
On Strike
To Working Men
Insularities
The Demeanour of Murderers
Nobody, Somebody, and Everybody
The Murdered Person
The Best Authority
AMUSEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
The Amusements of the People
Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller
Old Lamps for New Ones
The Ghost of Art
Epsom
Betting-Shops
The Spirit Business
The Noble Savage
Frauds on the Fairies
Gaslight Fairies
Well-Authenticated Rappings
Please to Leave Your Umbrella
In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray
EXPLANATORY NOTES
Footnotes
SLEEP TO STARTLE US
Detective Police
Page 255
Spitalfields
Page 303
INSULARITIES
Pet Prisoners
Page 401
AMUSEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
The Amusements of the People
Page 506
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