Roundabout Papers
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On A Lazy Idle Boy
On Two Children in Black
On Ribbons
On Some Late Great Victories
Thorns in the Cushion
On Screens in Dining-Rooms
Tunbridge Toys
De Juventute
On A Joke I Once Heard From the Late Thomas Hood
Round About the Christmas Tree
On A Chalk-Mark On the Door
On Being Found Out
On A Hundred Years Hence
Small-Beer Chronicle
Ogres
On Two Roundabout Papers Which I Intended to Write
A Mississippi Bubble
On Letts's Diary
Notes of A Week's Holiday
Nil Nisi Bonum
On Half A Loaf
The Notch On the Axe. - A Story A La Mode
De Finibus
On A Peal of Bells
On A Pear-Tree
Dessein's
On Some Carp at Sans Souci
Autour De Mon Chapeau
On Alexandrines
On A Medal of George the Fourth
"Strange to Say, On Club Paper."
The Last Sketch
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Dessein's

I arrived by the night-mail packet from Dover. The passage had been rough, and the usual consequences had ensued. I was disinclined to travel farther that night on my road to Paris, and knew the Calais hotel of old as one of the cleanest, one of the dearest, one of the most comfortable hotels on the continent of Europe. There is no town more French

            
            

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