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 A II AY the New Year be a b^-Ppy one to 
 * * *■ you, happy to maoy n)ore whose 
 bappiness depends on you ! So may each) 
 year be happier than the Mast, and not 
 tb© rT)eanest of our bret^fer) or sisterhood 
 debarred tb^ir rightful sbare. in what our 
 Great Creator formed them to enjoy. 
 
 THE CHIMES. 
 
 Copyright 19 04- 
 byOeWolfe.Fiske a Co. 
 
JANUARY 
 
 We are bound by every rule of justice and equity 
 to give thie New Year credit for being a good one, 
 until be proves himself unworthy the confidence 
 reposed in him. the new year. 
 
 1st. 
 
 2d 
 
 3d 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
JANUARY 
 
 !t is clear that a family of six, not including a 
 domestic, cannot live upon air. david coppcrfield. 
 
 No hand cao make the clock which will strike 
 again for me tbe hours that are gone. 
 
 THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. 
 
 7th 
 
 8th 
 
 9th 
 
 10th 
 
 11th 
 
 1 2th 
 
JAN U ARY 
 
 Thinking begets thinking. oliver twist. 
 
 Truth and honesty, liKe precious stones, are per- 
 haps more easily imitated at a distance, when the 
 counterfeits often pass for real. Nicholas mckleby 
 
 13th 
 
 I4th 
 
 !5th 
 
 16th 
 
 17th 
 
 18th 
 
JAN U ARY 
 
 We do good by stealth and blush to find it meo- 
 tioned Iq our little bill. oavid copperfielo. 
 
 The heart where self has found qo place and 
 raised no throne, is slow to recogoize its ugly preseQce 
 when it looks upon it. martin chuzzlewit. 
 
 19th 
 
 20th 
 
 2Ist 
 
 22cl 
 
 23d 
 
 24th 
 
JAN U ARY 
 
 The heart is oot always a royal mint, with patent 
 machioery, to worK its roetal into curreot coin. 
 
 MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 To tb© young this is a world of action, not For 
 moping and drooing in. david oopperfield. 
 
 25th 
 
 26th 
 
 2Tth 
 
 28th 
 
 29th 
 
 30th 
 
JAN U ARY 
 
 My advice is oever to do to-morrow wbat you can 
 do to-day. Procrastination is tbe tbief of time. 
 
 DAVID COPPERFIELD. 
 
 1 feels the sufferings of other people more than 1 
 feels my own, though not one mayn't suppoge it. 
 
 MARTIN OHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 3!st 
 
 10 
 
Caleb Plummer aod Bert! 
 
 rHE CRICKET ON THE HEAHT^ 
 
FEBRUARY 
 
 In very roany cases of friendship, or what passes 
 for it, the old axiom is reversed, aod like clings to 
 unlike more than to liRe. martin chuzzlewit. 
 
 1st 
 
 2d 
 
 3d 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
 12 
 
FEBRUARY 
 
 We are not all arrayed Iq two opposite ranks: 
 the of-fensive and the de-fsr)slve. Some few tbere 
 are who walk between ; who help the needy as they 
 go; and take no part on eitber side. 
 
 MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 7th 
 
 8th 
 
 9th 
 
 lOth 
 
 11th 
 
 12th 
 
FEBRUARY 
 
 An)ong meo wbo bave sound and sterling quali- 
 ties, there is nothiog so contagious as pure openness 
 of heart. Nicholas nickleby. 
 
 13th 
 
 14th 
 
 15th 
 
 16th 
 
 17th 
 
 18th 
 
FEBRU A RY 
 
 Every man came into tbe world for something. 
 
 BARNABY RUDQE. 
 
 Tears are not the only proofs of distress, oor the 
 best ones. pickwiok papers. 
 
 I9th 
 
 20th 
 
 21st 
 
 22d 
 
 23d 
 
 24th 
 
 15 
 
FEBRUARY 
 
 " I am however delighted to add tbat I have now | 
 
 an immediate prospect of soroethiog turning up." I 
 
 DAVID COPPERFIELO. _i 
 
 i 
 
 If you can't get to be uncommon through going j 
 
 straight, you'll never get to do it through going ' 
 
 crooked. qreat expectations- 
 
 25th 
 
 26th 
 
 27th 
 
 28th 
 
 29th 
 
 16 
 
God bless us eMzry ooe." 
 
 CHRISTMAS CAROL. 
 
MARCH 
 
 Now we lift our eyes up and looK hopefully at the 
 distance! The world Is before you; and it is most 
 probable, that as you enter it, so it will receive you. 
 Trust in nothing but io Providence and your own 
 efforts. Never separate the two. bleak house. 
 
 1st 
 
 2d 
 
 3d 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
 16 
 
MARCH 
 
 Far be it from me to assert tbat what everybody 
 says must be true. Everybody is, often, as liKely to 
 be v\/rong as rigFit. the haunted man 
 
 7th 
 
 8th 
 
 9th 
 
 10th 
 
 11th 
 
 12th 
 
 19 
 
MARCH 
 
 Even the cheap deligbts of childbood roust be 
 bought and paid for. the old curiosity shop. 
 
 !o our judgments, as in our doings, we roust bear 
 and forbear. habd times. 
 
 13th 
 14th 
 15th 
 16th 
 17th 
 18th 
 
 20 
 
MARCH 
 
 If I didn't tell her 1 loved her, \Vh8re would be 
 the use of roy being in love? martin chuzzlewit. 
 
 Regrets are tb® natural property of grey hairs. 
 
 MARTIN CHOZZLEWIT. 
 
 19th 
 
 20th 
 
 21st 
 
 22d 
 
 23d 
 
 24th 
 
 21 
 
MARCH 
 
 Let us be aroong the few who do tbQir duty. 
 
 MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 What's the use of putting things off ? StriKe 
 while the iroo's hot. barnaby rudqe. 
 
 25th 
 
 26th 
 
 27th 
 
 28th 
 
 29th 
 
 30th 
 
 22 
 
MARCH ] 
 
 As 1 have observed that Time coofuses facts 
 occasionally, 1 hardly knov\/ v\/hat weight to give to 
 its authority. the battle of life. 
 
 31st 
 
 23 
 
May the New Year be a bappy one." 
 
 TH£ CHIMES. 
 
APRIL 
 
 There are dark shadows on earth but its ligbts 
 are stronger in contrast. p.ckw.ck papers. 
 
 Tbings cannot be expected to turn up of them- 
 selves. We must, in a measure, assist to turn them 
 
 •"•P- DAVID COPPERFIELD. 
 
 1st 
 
 2d 
 
 3d 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
 25 
 
APRIL 
 
 "Along with the figure-head of Hope," said the 
 Captain, "there's a anchor; but what's the use of 
 my haviog a aocbor, if I can't find no bottom to let 
 
 it go in." OOMBEY & SON. 
 
 7th 
 
 8th 
 
 9th 
 
 10th 
 
 11th 
 
 12th 
 
APRIL 
 
 We must meet reverses boldly, aod not suffer 
 them to frighten us. dav.o copperfield, 
 
 "We eats our biled rT)utton without capers, aod 
 doo't care for horse-radish ven ve can get beef." 
 
 PICKWICK PAPERS. 
 
 13th 
 14th 
 15th 
 16th 
 17th 
 18th 
 
 27 
 
APRIL 
 
 Tbere's romaoce enough at home, witbout going 
 half a tT)ile for it; only people never thinK of it. 
 
 PIOKWICK PAPERS 
 
 Be bappy in the good you have won, and in the 
 good you do. the haunted man. 
 
 I9th 
 
 20th 
 
 21st 
 
 22d 
 
 23d 
 
 24th 
 
APRIL 
 
 I dido't say I uoderstood her, 1 wouldn't have the 
 presumption to say that of any woman. It's not so 
 easily doQe. basnaby rudqe. 
 
 25th 
 
 26th 
 
 2Tth 
 
 28th 
 
 29th 
 
 30th 
 
 29 
 
APRI L 
 
 Everything has an end. Even young ladies in love 
 cannot read their letters forever. barnaby rudqe. 
 
 "Coaches, Sammy, is like guns — they requires to 
 be loaded with very great care afore they go off." 
 
 PICKWICK PAPERS. 
 
 J 
 
 30 
 
At the Holly-tree Inn. 
 
MAY 
 
 If there were no such thing as display io the 
 world, my private opinion is, and 1 hope you agree 
 witb me, that we njight get on a great deal better 
 than we do, and might be iofinitely more agreeable 
 company than we are. the battle of life. 
 
 1st 
 
 2d 
 
 3d 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
MAY 
 
 If you have Friends in adversity, stand by them. 
 
 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 
 
 in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to 
 go dov/Q hill than up Nicholas nickleby. 
 
 7th 
 
 8th 
 
 9th 
 
 10th 
 
 11th 
 
 12th 
 
 33 
 
MAY 
 
 "What are we," said Mr. Pecksniff, "but coaches? 
 Some of us are slow coaches ; soroe of us are fast 
 coaches. Our passions are the horses, and rampaot 
 animals too! And Virtue is the drag! "We start from 
 the Mother's Arm's, and we run to the Dust Shovel." 
 
 MARTIN CHUZZLEWiT. 
 
 13th 
 
 14th 
 
 15th 
 
 16th 
 
 17 th i 
 
 ■■- -■ •- \ 
 
 18th 
 
 34 
 
MAY 
 
 If you have the abilities of ail the great men, past 
 and present, you could do nothing well without sin- 
 cerely meaning it and setting about it. 
 
 BLEAK HOUSE. 
 
 19th 
 
 20th 
 
 21st 
 
 22d 
 
 23d 
 
 24th 
 
 35 
 
MAY 
 
 It is difficult to smile with an aching beart. 
 
 PICKWICK PAPERS. 
 
 "You raytber vant somebody to looK arter you, 
 sir. ven your judgroent goes out a wisitin'. 
 
 PICKV/ICK PAPERS. 
 
 25th 
 
 26th 
 
 2Tth 
 
 28th 
 
 29th 
 
 30th 
 
 36 
 
MAY 
 
 Let us give everything their due. 
 
 NICHOLAS NIOKLEBV.. 
 
 Keep up appearances whatever you do. 
 
 MARTIN CHUZZLEWPT. 
 
 31st 
 
 37 
 
In 
 
 PICKWICK PAPERS. 
 
JUNE 
 
 Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came. * * * 
 The earth had donned her mantle of brightest greeo, 
 and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the 
 prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad 
 and flourisbing. - ol.ver tw.st. 
 
 1st 
 
 2d 
 
 3d 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
 39 
 
JUNE 
 
 "Chops! Gracious heavens! And tomato sauce! 
 Gentlemen, is tb© happiness of a sensitive and con- 
 fiding female to be trifled away by such shallow 
 artifices as these." pickwick papers. 
 
 7th 
 
 8th 
 
 9th 
 
 lOth 
 
 1 
 11th ' 
 
 i2th 
 
 40 
 
JUNE 
 
 No one is useless in this world ♦ * ♦ ^^ho 
 lightens the burden of it for anyone else. ' 
 
 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. J 
 
 It is oot OQ earth that Heaven's justice eods. 
 
 THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. '1 
 
 13th 
 14th 
 15th 
 16th 
 I7th 
 18th 
 
 41 
 
JUNE 
 
 Hope is said by the Poet to be the nurse of young 
 Desire. martin chuzzlewit. 
 
 The hill has not yet lifted its face to beaveo that 
 perseveraoce will not gain the summit of at last. 
 
 NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 
 
 19th 
 
 20th 
 
 21st 
 
 22d 
 
 23d 
 
 24th 
 
 42 
 
JUNE 
 
 It seems to n)e, after maturely thinking it over, 
 tinat tbe best amends for iiaviog got out of tFie 
 square is to get back into the square. 
 
 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 
 
 25th 
 
 26th 
 
 27th 
 
 28th 
 
 29th 
 
 30th 
 
 43 
 
JUNE 
 
 What 1 say I stick by. Nicholas nickleby. 
 
 Society is perhaps a little roercenary, you koow. 
 roy dear. little oorrit. 
 
 44 
 
I'm arA'dy^ 
 
 ,fi on. 
 
 BLEAK HOUSE. 
 
JULY 
 
 It was deligbtful weather. The green coro waved 
 so beautifully, tbe ^arKs sang so joyfully, the hedges 
 were so full of wild flowers, the trees were so thickly 
 out in leaf, tbe bean Fields, with a light wind blowiog 
 over them, filled the air with such a delicious fra- 
 grance. BLEAK HOUSE. 
 
 1st 
 
 2d 
 
 3d 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
 46 
 
JULY 
 
 All good luck and happiness. martin ohuzzuewit. 
 
 Many a gentleman lives upon a soft head, who 
 would find a beart of the same quality a very great 
 drawback. Nicholas nioklebv. 
 
 7th 
 
 8th 
 
 9th 
 
 lOth 
 
 nth 
 
 12th 
 
 47 
 
JULY 
 
 People need to rise early, to see the suq in all his 
 splendour, for his bnghtoess seldom lasts the day 
 through. pickwick papers. 
 
 13th 
 14th 
 1 5th 
 16th 
 17th 
 
 18th 
 
 48 
 
JULY 
 
 Wbat a blessing to have ready wit * * * and 
 ready money to back it. Nicholas nickleby. 
 
 All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the 
 self-swindlers. qheat expectations 
 
 19th 
 
 20th 
 
 21st 
 
 22d 
 
 23d 
 
 24th 
 
 49 
 
JULY 
 
 If we all did wbat we uQdertake to do, as faith- 
 fully as Herbert did, we migbt live in a Republic of 
 the Virtues. great expectations. 
 
 25th 
 
 26th 
 
 27th 
 
 28th 
 
 29th 
 
 30th 
 
 50 
 
JULY 
 
 find so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, every 
 
 one ! A CHRISTMAS OAHOL. 
 
 Rich folKs may ride on camels, but it aio't so 
 easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. 
 
 MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 31st 
 
 51 
 
We all bave soroe bright days." 
 
 NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 
 
AUGUST 
 
 Young women are coQtradictory creatures in some , 
 
 thiogs * * * but their hearts are soft and kind. I 
 
 1st 
 
 2d 
 
 3d 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
 DAVID COPPERFIELD. 
 
 53 
 
AUGUST 
 
 When 1 take a geotleman to my house, no matter 
 whether he is nineteen, twenty-nine or ninety, 1 take 
 him there io a spirit of confidence. 
 
 DAVID COPPERFIELO. 
 
 7th 
 
 8th 
 
 9th 
 
 10th 
 
 nth 
 
 12th 
 
 54 
 
AUGUST 
 
 Pride is one of tbe seven deadly sins; but it can- 
 not be tbe pride of a mother in ber ciiildren. for that 
 is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and 
 
 hope. NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 
 
 13th 
 
 I4th ] 
 
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 15th 
 
 16th 
 
 17th 
 
 18th 
 
 55 
 
AUGUST ] 
 
 What a blessed thing it is— living in a wale— to be 
 contented! What a blessed thing it is to roaRe sick 
 people happy in their beds, and never miQd one's 
 self as long as one can do a service. 
 
 MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 19th 
 
 20th 
 
 21st 
 
 22d 
 
 23d 
 
 24th. 
 
 56 
 
AUGUST 
 
 "There is rayther a change for the worse," as the 
 gen'l'man said, w'en he got two doubtful shillin's and 
 sixpenn'orth o' pocket pieces for a good balf croWQ. 
 
 PICKWICK PAPERS. 
 
 25th 
 
 26th 
 
 27th 
 
 28th 
 
 29th 
 
 30th 
 
 57 
 
AUGUST 
 
 Let no mao turn aside, ever so slightly, froro tbe 
 broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that 
 he is justified by tbe goodness of his end. 
 
 BARNABY RUDQE. 
 
 31st 
 
 58 
 
Liverything works for the best." 
 
 DOMBEV & SON. 
 
SEPTEMBER 
 
 Hedges, fields and trees, hill and moorland, pre- 
 sented to tbe eye their ever-varying shades of deep 
 rich green; scarce a leaf had fallen, scarce a sprinkle 
 of yellow nningled with the hues of sumroer, warned 
 you that autumn had begun. piokwick papers 
 
 1st 
 
 2d 
 
 3d 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
 60 
 
SEPTEMBER 
 
 Conscience is an elastic and very flexible article, 
 which will bear a deal of stretching and adapt itself 
 to a great variety of circumstances. 
 
 THE OLD CURIOSITV SHOP. 
 
 7th 
 
 8th 
 
 9th 
 
 10th 
 
 nth 
 
 12th 
 
 61 
 
SEPTEMBER 
 
 Of all fruitless errands, sending a tear to look '! 
 
 after a day that is gone is the most fruitless. j 
 
 NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 
 
 Loveliness is a pleasant thing — when it don't lead ' 
 
 to spending money mahtin oHU2rLEwiT. ; 
 
 13th 
 
 14th 
 
 15th 
 
 16th 
 
 17th 
 
 18th 
 
 62 
 
SEPTEMBER 
 
 Our life is not too easy perbaps: taken altogether, 
 it will bear any little smoothing we can give it. ; 
 
 TKE BATTLE OF LIFE. J 
 
 i 
 
 it is a poor heart that never rejoices; and our 
 bearts are not poor ? No ! martin chuzzlewit. 
 
 19th 
 
 20th 
 
 21st 
 
 22d 
 
 23d 
 
 24th 
 
 63 
 
SEPTEMBER 
 
 i 
 
 Aoy man can be in good spirits wheo he is well ] 
 
 dressed. There ain't nnucb credit in that. If 1 was \ 
 
 very ragged and very jolly, then 1 should begio to feel i 
 I bad gaioed a point. martin cmuzzlewit. 
 
 25th 
 26th 
 
 2Tth 
 
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 28th I 
 
 29th I 
 
 30th , 
 
 64 i 
 
SEPTEMBER 
 
 Constancy in love is a good tbing; but it meaos 
 Qothing, and is nothing, without coQstaocy in every 
 Riod of effort. bleak house. 
 
 I will do my duty v\/hile \ can. 
 
 A TACE CF TWO CITIES. 
 
 65 
 
Little Nell and ber Grandfather. 
 
 OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. 
 
OCTOBER 
 
 In. trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, 
 botheration, there are iQfluences that can never come 
 
 to good. BLEAK HOUSE. 
 
 In love of home the love of country has its rise. 
 
 THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. 
 
 1st 
 
 2d 
 
 3d 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
 67 
 
OCTOBER 
 
 God help the man whose bsart ever changes with 
 the world. barnaby r-jdqe. 
 
 Tbe precious moroents is a flyin" fast. 
 
 MARTIN OHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 7th 
 8th 
 9th 
 10th 
 
 nth 
 
 l-2th 
 
 68 
 
OCTOBER 
 
 Scattered wits take a IbQg time pickiog up. 
 
 QRCAT EXPECTATIONS. 
 
 A wedding is a licensed subject to joKe upon, 
 there really is no great JoKe ir) the roatter at all. 
 
 PICKWICK PAPERS. 
 
 13th 
 14th 
 15th 
 16th 
 17th 
 I8th 
 
 69 
 
OCTOBER 
 
 A gridiron is a gridiron * » * and you may 
 name it what you like, but a gridiroo it will come 
 out, either by your leave or against your leave, and 
 you cao't help yourself. great expectations 
 
 !9th 
 
 20th 
 
 21st 
 
 22d 
 
 23d 
 
 24th 
 
 70 
 
OCTOB ER 
 
 EXity — Begin it early, ar)d do it well ; and there is no 
 antecedent to it io aoy origin or station, that 
 will tell against us with the fllroighty, or with 
 ourselves. i.ittle dobrit. 
 
 25th 
 
 26th 
 
 27th 
 
 28th 
 
 29th 
 
 30th 
 
 71 
 
OCTOBER 
 
 CouQtry! Nonsense! What can you get in tb© 
 country but new-laid eggs and flowers. 
 
 NICHOLAS NICKUE8Y 
 
 Strewing the path with smiles, in tb® abseoce of 
 
 flowers. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 
 
 31st 
 
 72 
 
1 ne aay sported by us." 
 
 DAVIO COPPEBFIEUD. 
 
NO VEM BER 
 
 If you entertain the supposition that aoy real 
 success, in great thiQgs or in small, ever was or could 
 be, ever will or cao be, wrested from Fortune by fits 
 and starts, leave that wrong idea bare. 
 
 BLEAK HOUSE. 
 
 ist 
 
 2d 
 
 3d 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
 74 
 
NOVEM BER 
 
 There never were greed and cunning in the world 
 yet, that did oot do too much, and over-reach them- 
 selves. OAVIO OOPPERFIELD. 
 
 If we are not siocere, we are oothing. 
 
 BARNABY RUDQE. 
 
 7th 
 8th 
 9th 
 10th 
 
 nth 
 
 12th 
 
 75 
 
NO VEM BER 
 
 Memory, however bod, is tbe best aod truest link 
 between this world and a better. Nicholas nickleby. 
 
 Do not allow a trivial misuoderstanding to witber 
 the blossoms of spriog. bleak House. 
 
 13th 
 
 14th 
 
 15th 
 
 16th 
 
 17 th 
 
 18th 
 
 76 
 
NOVEMBER 
 
 It is a melancholy truth that great men have 
 
 their poor relations. 
 
 BLEAK HOUSE. 
 
 We never know the v\/alue of some wines and fig- 
 trees till we lose 'em. 
 
 BARNABY RUDQE . 
 
 19th 
 
 20th 
 
 21st 
 
 22d 
 
 23d 
 
 24th 
 
 77 
 
NOVEMBER 
 
 Forgiveness is a higin quality, an exalted virtue. 
 
 MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 Take nothing on its looks, take everything on 
 evidence. There's qo better rule. great expectations. 
 
 25th 
 26th 
 27th 
 28th 
 29th 
 30th 
 
 78 
 
NOVEM BER 
 
 Subdue your appetites, my dear, and you've con- j 
 
 Quered human natur". nioholas nioklebv. i 
 
 j 
 
 Tbe shadows of our own desires stand between J 
 
 us and our better angels. barnaby huooe. ' 
 
 79 
 
"All people have their trials." 
 
 NICHOLAS HICKLEBY. 
 
DECEMBER 
 
 To njake one's sweecbeart miserable is well enough jj 
 
 and quite right, but to be n^ade miserable one's self ' 
 
 Is a little too mucb- barnaby rudqe, ] 
 
 \ 
 Every rrjan of true genius has his peculiarity. , 
 
 MAKTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 1st 
 
 2d 
 
 3ci 
 
 4th 
 
 5th 
 
 6th 
 
 81 
 
DECEM BER 
 
 Tiroe and tide will wait for no man, saith the 
 adage, but all men Inave to wait for time and tide. 
 
 MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 Industry is tbe soul of business and tbe Keystone 
 of prosperity. barnaby rudqe. 
 
 7th 
 
 8th 
 
 9th 
 
 10th 
 
 11th 
 
 I2th 
 
 82 
 
DeCEM BER 
 
 Tbere must have been some few occurences in 
 tbe past year to which we can look back with a 
 srr)ile of cheerful recollectiOQ, if not with a feeling of 
 heartfelt thankfuloess. the new year. 
 
 13th 
 14th 
 15th 
 16th 
 17th 
 
 18th 
 
 83 
 
DECEM BER 
 
 We measure njan's life by years, and it is a solemn 
 koell that warns us we have passed another of tbe 
 landmarks whicb stand between us and the grave. 
 
 THE N£W YEAH. 
 
 I9th 
 
 20th 
 
 21st 
 
 22d 
 
 23d 
 
 24th 
 
 84 
 
DECEMBER 
 
 Numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christ- 
 mas briQgs a brief seasoQ of happioess and enjoyment. 
 
 THE OLD OURIOSITY SHOP. 
 
 Our life on it, but your Christmas shall be merry, 
 and your new year a happy one ! a christmas dinner. 
 
 25th 
 
 26th 
 
 27th 
 
 28th 
 
 29th 
 
 30th 
 
DECEMBER 
 
 Christmas has come 'round, and the uokind feel- 
 ings that have struggled against better dispositions 
 during the year, have melted away, before its geoial 
 influence, like half-formed ica beneath the rooming 
 
 5^^- A CHRISTMAS DINNER. 
 
 3lst 
 
 I 
 86 1 
 
WE ALL change, but that's with) Time; 
 Time does bis work honestly. qqcI 
 1 don't mind hirt). A fig for Time. Use 
 bim well and he's a hearty fellow. oQd 
 scorns to h)ave you at a disadvantage. 
 
 MaQy happy new years, uQbroKen 
 friendship, great accurT)ulation of cl^eerful 
 recollectioQs, affection on eartb. agd 
 hjeaveo at last for all of us. 
 
 87 
 
NOTES 
 
 1 would rather bave the affectionate regard of 
 my fellow n)en. than 1 would have heaps and« mines 
 
 of gold. SPEECHES, LfTEHARY AND SOCIAL. 
 
 Let them tak' us as they find us. Nicholas niokleby. 
 
 cwc: 
 
 88 
 
NOTES 
 
 We can see no mora to the bottom of the next 
 few hours than we can see to the bottom of this j 
 
 river. great expectations. 
 
 Things pass away like a tale that is told. 
 
 THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. 
 
 I 
 
 (i 
 
 89 
 
NOTES 
 
 There car) be no disparity in marriage like unsuit- 
 ability of mind and purpose. david coppe^field. 
 
 Anythiog tbat makes a noise is satisfactory to a 
 
 crowd. OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. 
 
 90 
 
NOTES 
 
 True greatness of soul sympathizes with true 
 greatness of soul all the world over. 
 
 MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 A roan can't help his Feelings. great expectations 
 
 91 
 
NOTES 
 
 Witb what ease a good man may be coosoled 
 under circumstances of failure and disappointroeot. 
 
 MARTIN OHUZZLEWIT. 
 
 Manifold are the cares of wealth and state. 
 
 LITTLE OORRIT. 
 
 92 
 
NOTES 
 
 To remerober happioess whicb cannot be restored 
 
 '* P^'"- NICHOLAS NIOKLEBY. 
 
 The expressioQ of a man'? face is commonly a 
 help to his thoughts, or glossary on bis speech- 
 
 NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 
 
 93 
 
NOTES 
 
 Painters always rrjake ladies out prettier than 
 they are, or they wouldn't get any custom. 
 
 OLIVER TWIST. 
 
 Anxious people often magnify an evil and ma^e 
 it worse, • the old ouriosity shop. 
 
 94 
 
NOTES 
 
 Wbeo duty calls we must obey. bleak house. 
 
 Every failure teaches a man something if he will 
 learn, little dorrit. 
 
 95 
 
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