21. How many lumps of sugar went into the Shepherd’s liquor as a rule? and is any exception recorded? 22. What seal was on Mr. Winkle’s letter to his father? What penitential attitude did he assume before Mr. Pickwick? 23. “She’s a swelling visibly.” When did the same phenomenon occur again, and what fluid caused the pressure on the body in the latter case? 24. How did Mr. Weller, senior, define the Funds, and what view did he take of Reduced Consols? in what terms is his elastic force described, when he assaulted Mr. Stiggins at the meeting? Write down the name of the meeting? 25. “Πςοβατογνώμων: a good judge of cattle; hence, a good judge of character.” Note on Æsch. Ag.—Illustrate the theory involved by a remark of the parent Weller. 26. Give some account of the word “fanteeg,” and hazard any conjecture explanatory of the expression “My Prooshan Blue,” applied by Mr. Samuel to Mr. Tony Weller. 27. In developing to P. M. his views of a proposition, what assumption did Mr. Pickwick feel justified in making? 28. Deduce from a remark of Mr. Weller, junior, the price per mile of cabs at the period. 29. What do you know of the hotel next the Bull at Rochester? 30. Who, besides Mr. Pickwick, is recorded to have worn gaiters? KEY TO THE ‘PICKWICK’ EXAMINATION PAPER. 1. See Chapters IV., VIII., XXVIII., LIV. (1), IV., XXX. (twice), XXXIX. (2), LVI. 2. Two of Jingle’s speeches are here quoted, the first being in Chapter III., and the second in Chapter II. For “Spanish traveller” see Chapter III., and for “narcotic bedstead” see Chapter XLI. “Go on, Jemmy,” is Mr. Jingle’s adjuration to the actor whom he has previously designated “Dismal Jemmy,” urging the commencement of the ‘Stroller’s Tale.’ “Like black-eyed Susan—all in the Downs” has the double application to the stroller’s melancholy and the first line of Gay’s song of ‘Black-eyed Susan’—“All in the Downs the fleet was moored.” “Handled his fives well” of course refers to the “sparring” of the cabman who wanted to fight Mr. Pickwick. “Friend in the green jemmy” refers to Mr. Winkle, who, we are told in Chapter I., “wore a new green shooting-coat,” &c. “Pig’s whisper” is slang for a very brief space of time. Bartlett says the Americans have “pig’s whistle” the same signification. 3. See Chapters VII., XVIII., XIX., XXII., XXXIV., XXXVII., XXXVI., XLIV. 4. See two several parts of ‘The Bagman’s Story’ in Chapter XIV. 5. See Chapters XXIV., XXV., XLVI., VIII,, XLI. 6. See Chapter XX. 7. See Chapter XXIV. 8. See Chapters XXV., LVI., XXXIII. 9. See Chapter XXXIII. 10. See Chapters XXXIII. and XXXI. 11. See the end of Chapter XIX. 12. Illustrations will be found severally in Chapters XXXIII., XXXV., XLVII. 13. See Chapters XXX. and XXXII. 14. See two separate passages in Chapter XXXVIII. 15. See Chapters XXXIX. and XLIII. 16. See Chapter XLII. 17. See Chapters XLIII., XLV., LV. 18. See Chapters VI. and XXVIII.