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A good-humoured Christmas Chapter, containing an Account of a Wedding, and some other Sports beside:

           Wellerareallrightbehind,andthecoachmanisallrightinfront,andtheoldgentlemaninside,whohaskeptthewindowdownfulltwoinchesallthistime,haspulleditupagain,andtheclothsareoff,andtheyareallreadyforstarting,exceptthe‘twostoutgentlemen,’whomthecoachmaninquiresafterwithsomeimpatience.Hereuponthecoachman,andtheguard,andSamWeller,andMr.Winkle,andMr.Snodgrass,andallthehostlers,andeveryoneoftheidlers,whoaremoreinnumberthanalltheothersputtogether,shoutforthemissinggentlemenasloudastheycanbawl.Adistantresponseisheardfromtheyard,andMr.PickwickandMr.Tupmancomerunningdownit,quiteoutofbreath,fortheyhavebeenhavingaglassofalea-piece,andMr.Pickwick’sfingersaresocoldthathehasbeenfullfiveminutesbeforehecouldfindthesixpencetopayforit.Thecoachmanshoutsanadmonitory‘Nowthen,gen’l’m’n,’theguardre-echoesit;theoldgentlemaninsidethinksitaveryextraordinarythingthatpeopleWILLgetdownwhentheyknowthereisn’ttimeforit;Mr.Pickwickstrugglesupononeside,Mr.Tupmanontheother;Mr.Winklecries‘Allright’;andofftheystart.Shawlsarepulledup,coatcollarsarereadjusted,thepavementceases,thehousesdisappear;andtheyareonceagaindashingalongtheopenroad,withthefreshclearairblowingintheirfaces,andgladdeningtheirveryheartswithinthem.

           SuchwastheprogressofMr.

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