Produced by Donald Lainson MEMOIRS OF MR. CHARLES J. YELLOWPLUSH By William Makepeace Thackeray CONTENTS MISS SHUM'S HUSBAND THE AMOURS OF MR. DEUCEACE FORING PARTS MR. DEUCEACE AT PARIS:-- CHAP. I. The Two Bundles of Hay II. “Honor thy Father” III. Minewvring IV. “Hitting the Nale on the Hedd” V. The Griffin's Claws VI. The Jewel VII. The Consquinsies VIII. The End of Mr. Deuceace's History. Limbo IX. The Marriage X. The Honey-moon MR. YELLOWPLUSH'S AJEW SKIMMINGS FROM “THE DAIRY OF GEORGE IV.” EPISTLES TO THE LITERATI MEMOIRS OF MR. CHARLES J. YELLOWPLUSH MISS SHUM'S HUSBAND. CHAPTER I. I was born in the year one, of the present or Christian hera, and am, in consquints, seven-and-thirty years old. My mamma called me Charles James Harrington Fitzroy Yellowplush, in compliment to several noble families, and to a sellybrated coachmin whom she knew, who wore a yellow livry, and drove the Lord Mayor of London. Why she gev me this genlmn's name is a diffiklty, or rayther the name of a part of his dress; however, it's stuck to me through life, in which I was, as it were, a footman by buth. Praps he was my father--though on this subjict I can't speak suttinly, for my ma wrapped up my buth in a mistry. I may be illygitmit, I may have been changed at nuss; but I've always had genlmnly tastes through life, and have no doubt that I come of a genlmnly origum. The less I say about my parint the better, for the dear old creatur was very good to me, and, I fear, had very little other goodness in her. Why, I can't say; but I always passed as her nevyou. We led a strange life; sometimes ma was dressed in sattn and rooge, and sometimes in rags and dutt; sometimes I got kisses, and sometimes kix; sometimes gin, and sometimes shampang; law bless us! how she used to swear at me, and cuddle me; there we were, quarrelling and making up, sober and tipsy, starving and guttling by turns, just as ma got money or spent it. But let me draw a vail over the seen, and speak of her no more--its 'sfishant for the public to know, that her name was Miss Montmorency, and we lived in the New Cut.