24. The first two questions are answered in Chapters LII. and LV. The next is answered at the end of Chapter XXXIII.; where also is the information lastly required.

25. The illustration required is in Chapter LV.

26. See Chapters XXXVIII. and XXXIII. “Fanteeg, a worry or bustle. Also, ill-humour.—Various Dialects.”—Halliwell. “Prooshan blue” probably refers to the colour of dress-coats. “Which gentleman of your party wears a bright blue dress-coat?” enquires The Boots, in ‘Pickwick,’ Chapter II. Thus Sam Weller’s “Prooshan Blue” is a finely-dressed fellow of the Pickwick-Weller period.

27. See Chapter XXIV.

28. See the opening of Chapter XXII.

29. See Chapter II.

30. See Chapter XX.