27. In developing to P. M. his views of a proposition, what assumption did Mr. Pickwick feel justified in making?
28. Deduce from a remark of Mr. Weller, junior, the price per mile of cabs at the period.
29. What do you know of the hotel next the Bull at Rochester?
30. Who, besides Mr. Pickwick, is recorded to have worn gaiters?
KEY TO THE ‘PICKWICK’ EXAMINATION PAPER.
1. See Chapters IV., VIII., XXVIII., LIV.
(1), IV., XXX. (twice), XXXIX.
(2), LVI.
2. Two of Jingle’s speeches are here quoted, the first being in Chapter III., and the second in Chapter II. For “Spanish traveller” see Chapter III., and for “narcotic bedstead” see Chapter XLI. “Go on, Jemmy,” is Mr. Jingle’s adjuration to the actor whom he has previously designated “Dismal Jemmy,” urging the commencement of the ‘Stroller’s Tale.’ “Like black-eyed Susan—all in the Downs” has the double application to the stroller’s melancholy and the first line of Gay’s song of ‘Black-eyed Susan’—“All in the Downs the fleet was moored.” “Handled his fives well” of course refers to the “sparring” of the cabman who wanted to fight Mr. Pickwick. “Friend in the green jemmy” refers to Mr. Winkle, who, we are told in Chapter I., “wore a new green shooting-coat,” &c. “Pig’s whisper” is slang for a very brief space of time. Bartlett says the Americans have “pig’s whistle” the same signification.
3. See Chapters VII., XVIII., XIX., XXII., XXXIV., XXXVII., XXXVI., XLIV.