London, 26th July, 1854.


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME ONE

Etched by W. H. W. Bicknell from drawings by Samuel Lover


HANDY ANDY

CHAPTER I

Andy Rooney was a fellow who had the most singularly ingenious knack of doing everything the wrong way; disappointment waited on all affairs in which he bore a part, and destruction was at his fingers' ends; so the nickname the neighbours stuck upon him was Handy Andy, and the jeering jingle pleased them.