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 |