I have spent so many agreeable hours at Edgeworth heretofore, that my first visit on leaving London, will be to your hospitable mansion. In the meantime, I beg leave to introduce to you my “Attache,” who will precede me several days. His politics are similar to your own; I wish I could say as much in favour of his humour. His eccentricities will stand in need of your indulgence; but if you can overlook these, I am not without hopes that his originality, quaint sayings, and queer views of things in England, will afford you some amusement. At all events, I feel assured you will receive him kindly; if not for his own merits, at least for the sake of
Yours always,
THE AUTHOR.
To EDMUND HOPKINSON ESQ. Edgeworth, Gloucestershire.
CONTENTS
[ THE ATTACHE; OR SAM SLICK IN ENGLAND. ]
FIRST VOLUME
[ CHAPTER I. ] UNCORKING A BOTTLE
[ CHAPTER II. ] A JUICY DAY IN THE COUNTRY
[ CHAPTER III. ] TYING A NIGHT-CAP
[ CHAPTER IV. ] HOME AND THE SEA
[ CHAPTER V. ] T’OTHER EEND OF THE GUN
[ CHAPTER VI. ] SMALL POTATOES AND FEW IN A HILL
[ CHAPTER VII. ] A GENTLEMAN AT LARGE
[ CHAPTER VIII. ] SEEING LIVERPOOL
[ CHAPTER IX. ] CHANGING A NAME
[ CHAPTER X. ] THE NELSON MONUMENT
[ CHAPTER XI. ] COTTAGES
[ CHAPTER XII. ] STEALING THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE
[ CHAPTER XIII. ] NATUR’
[ CHAPTER XIV. ] THE SOCDOLAGER
[ CHAPTER XV. ] DINING OUT
[ THE SECOND VOLUME. ]
[ CHAPTER I. ] THE NOSE OF A SPY
[ CHAPTER II. ] THE PATRON; OR, THE COW’S TAIL
[ CHAPTER III. ] ASCOT RACES
[ CHAPTER IV. ] THE GANDER PULLING
[ CHAPTER V. ] THE BLACK STOLE
[ CHAPTER VI. ] THE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE’S HORSE
[ CHAPTER VII. ] LIFE IN THE COUNTRY
[ CHAPTER VIII. ] BUNKUM
[ CHAPTER IX. ] THROWING THE LAVENDER
[ CHAPTER X. ] AIMING HIGH
[ CHAPTER XI. ] A SWOI-REE
[ CHAPTER XII. ] TATTERSALL’S OR, THE ELDER AND THE GRAVE DIGGER
[ CHAPTER XIII. ] LOOKING BACK
[ CHAPTER XIV. ] CROSSING THE BORDER
[ CHAPTER XV. ] THE IRISH PREFACE