CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,
CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.
Dedicated
BY PERMISSION, AND WITH THE DEEPEST RESPECT,
TO
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT,
Treasurer,
AND TO THE
HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF BENCHERS
OF GRAY'S INN.
PREFACE.
It is with feelings of much diffidence, even with alarm, that this little book is given to the world. It was written to give pleasure to many dear to the writer's heart, relatives and friends, most of whom have already gone to that "Shadowy Land" to which we are all so fast hastening.