What he says of printers and smokers is simply horrible; in short, this dreadful SIGERSON has gone and made life a wretched and lingering (to quote the sensitive Mrs. GAMP,) "progiss through this mortial wale.

It's a general mix-up, you know: Hamlet, and Sairy Gamp, and Rip Van Winkle, and Old Mother Hubbard, and everybody.

Mrs. Gamp's curls were so obviously false that they could not be said to be intended to deceive.

But her failure is really more tragic than that of Mrs. Gamp.

Through Mrs. Gamp, Dickens dealt a death-blow to the drunken nurse of the period.

Mrs. Gamp, though one of the humorous types that have, perhaps, contributed most largely to the fame of Dickens, does not appear in this epitome, the character being a minor one in the development of the story.

Don't neglect to water the lettuce, Nan, and don't overwork yourself, my little 'Martha.' Come" At this juncture, Solon suddenly went off, like "Mrs. Gamp," in a sort of walking swoon, apparently deaf and blind to all mundane matters, except the refreshments awaiting him ten miles away; and the benign old pastor disappeared, humming "Hebron" to the creaking accompaniment of the bulgy chaise.

I go out from the presence of my household, that I may vent myself by private absurdities and exclusive antics, I retire into remote corners, that I may grin fearfully, unseen of Mistress Gamp and my small servant.

My dear Mrs. Gamp, I fully appreciate the propriety of your suggestions.

To the person who complains that he has never met Dick Swiveller or Micawber or Mrs. Gamp the answer is simply Turner's to the sceptical critic of his sunset, "Don't you wish you could?"

My confession gave him "that turn," as Mrs. Gamp would say, that his present illness may be the result of it.

I wish Micawber and Dick Swiveller and Sairey Gamp turned up again in other novels than their own, just as Shakespeare ran the glorious glow of Falstaff through a group of plays.

In short, who seems to be a blend Of Balaam's Ass, the bore's godsend, And Mrs. Gamp's elusive friend?

Like Mr. Swinburne and other true men, he regards Mrs. Gamp as representing the quintessence of literary art wielded by genius.

Try (he urges with a fine curiosity) 'to imagine Sarah Gamp as a young girl'!

Creations such as Mrs. Nickleby, Mr. Micawber, Sam Weller, Sairy Gamp, take rank with Falstaff and Dogberry; while many others, like Dick Swiveller, Stiggins, Chadband, Mrs. Jellyby, and Julia Mills, are almost equally good.

The List of Honours, usually published on Her Majesty's Birthday, is this year reserved till the Jubilee Day, and to sanguine aspirants I would say, in Mrs. Gamp's immortal words, "Seek not to proticipate.

"What will Mrs. Grundy say?" is the nervous catchword of one of the characters, much in the same way as Mrs. Gamp was wont to defer to the censorious standards of her invisible friend "Mrs. Harris."

In the case of the last named chimera, it will be recalled that the awful moment came when Mrs. Gamp's boon companion, Batsey Prig, was sacrilegious enough to declare her belief that no such person as "Mrs. Harris" was, or ever had been, in existence.

As a class, the players had no social position of any kind, although the great ones of the earth, the men of rank, never hesitated to hobnob with them when, like Mrs. Gamp, they felt "so dispoged."

I am not now so young as once I was, I have arrived at the Golosh and Gamp Age, I am not equal to contendthat's poz With the Parochial Fathers on the rampage.

Your gamp was someone else's.

It is a goot blace for a gamp, Leftenant, und we shall pe all right in a tay or two.

GAMP, SARAH, a nurse in "Martin Chuzzlewit," famous for her bulky umbrella, and for confirming her opinions of things by a constant reference to the authority of an imaginary Mrs. Harris.

What boots a billion, less or more, If Man still is fool or boor? "Seek not to proticipate" is Mrs. Gamp's wise maxim.