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'Why, I am afraid it wouldn't, replied the agent; 'if it were done by yourself, my dear Sir, I think it would make you very popular. 'Very well, said the Honourable Samuel Slumkey, with a resigned air, 'then it must be done. That's all. 'Arrange the procession, cried the twenty committee-men.
'Hurrah! And then there was another roaring, like that of a whole menagerie when the elephant has rung the bell for the cold meat. 'Who is Slumkey?'whispered Mr. Tupman. 'I don't know, replied Mr. Pickwick, in the same tone. 'Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do. 'But suppose there are two mobs? suggested Mr. Snodgrass.
'And, perhaps, my dear Sir, said the cautious little man, 'perhaps if you could I don't mean to say it's indispensable but if you could manage to kiss one of 'em, it would produce a very great impression on the crowd. 'Wouldn't it have as good an effect if the proposer or seconder did that? said the Honourable Samuel Slumkey.
Slumkey that Slumkey whom we, long before he gained his present noble and exalted position, predicted would one day be, as he now is, at once his country's brightest honour, and her proudest boast: alike her bold defender and her honest pride our reptile contemporary, we say, has made himself merry, at the expense of a superbly embossed plated coal-scuttle, which has been presented to that glorious man by his enraptured constituents, and towards the purchase of which, the nameless wretch insinuates, the Honourable Mr.
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