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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home!

[...] but vether it's worth while goin' through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o' taste.

'[...] the wery best intentions, as the gen'l'm'n said ven he run away from his wife 'cos she seemed unhappy with him,' replied Mr Weller.

'Werry sorry to 'casion any personal inconwenience, ma'am, as the house-breaker said to the old lady when he put her on the fire; [...].

'[...] Business first, pleasure arterwards, as King Richard the Third said when he stabbed the t'other king in the Tower, afore he smothered the babbies.'

'Who are you, you rascal?' said the Captain; adminstering several pokes to Mr Pickwick's body with the thick stick. 'What's your name?
'Cold punch,' murmured Mr Pickwick, as he sunk to sleep again.

This constant sucession of glasses produced considerable effect upon Mr Pickwick; his countenance beamed with the most sunny smiles, laughter played around his lips, and good-humoured merriment twinkled in his eye. Yielding by degrees to the influence of the exciting liquid, rendered more so by the heat, Mr Pickwick expressed a strong desire to recollect a song which he had heard in his infancy, and the attempt proving abortive, sought to stimulate his memory with more glasses of punch, which appeared to have quite a contrary effect; for, from forgetting the words of the song, he began to forget how to articulate any words at all; and finally, after rising to his legs to address the company in an eloquent speech, he fell into the barrow, and fast asleep, simultaneously.

'He wants you particklar; and no one else'll do, as the Devil's private secretary said ven he fetched avay Doctor Faustus,' replied Mr Weller.

'That's the pint, sir,' interposed Sam; 'out with it, as the father said to the child, when he swallowed a farden.'

Then the next question is, what the devil do you want with me, as the man said wen he see the ghost?