WHIM.

B.Y

MORTIMER COLLINS.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY S. KING & CO.,

65, CORNHILL, & 12, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1873.

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SQUIRE SILCHESTER'S WHIM.

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CHAPTER I.

THE LODGER AT DYER'S.

Poet. Upon your nice mince-pies I've made a sonnet.
Confectioner. Thanks. I will make my next mince-pies

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upon it.

YER, the confectioner, famous for his tarts,

and a dealer also in music and toys, let lodgings when a lodger could be foundwhich was seldom. However, when a lodger did arrive, he was not badly treated, for Dyer had a deft hand at cookery, and Dyer's wife was one of those brisk and alert little women who can do anything.

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