[Picture: Book cover] [Picture: Time and his Wife] THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER * * * * * By CHARLES DICKENS * * * * * _With Illustrations by Harry Furniss and A. J. Goodman_ * * * * * LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LD. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1905 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. His General Line of Business CHAPTER II. The Shipwreck CHAPTER III. Wapping Workhouse CHAPTER IV. Two Views of a Cheap Theatre CHAPTER V. Poor Mercantile Jack CHAPTER VI. Refreshments for Travellers CHAPTER VII. Travelling Abroad CHAPTER VIII. The Great Tasmania’s Cargo CHAPTER IX. City of London Churches CHAPTER X. Shy Neighbourhoods CHAPTER XI. Tramps CHAPTER XII. Dullborough Town CHAPTER XIII. Night Walks CHAPTER XIV. Chambers CHAPTER XV. Nurse’s Stories CHAPTER XVI. Arcadian London CHAPTER XVII. The Italian Prisoner CHAPTER XVIII. The Calais Night Mail CHAPTER XIX. Some Recollections of Mortality CHAPTER XX. Birthday Celebrations CHAPTER XXI. The Short-Timers CHAPTER XXII. Bound for the Great Salt Lake CHAPTER XXIII. The City of the Absent CHAPTER XXIV. An Old Stage-coaching House CHAPTER XXV. The Boiled Beef of New England CHAPTER XXVI. Chatham Dockyard CHAPTER XXVII. In the French-Flemish Country CHAPTER XXVIII. Medicine Men of Civilisation CHAPTER XXIX. Titbull’s Alms-Houses CHAPTER XXX. The Ruffian CHAPTER XXXI. Aboard Ship CHAPTER XXXII. A Small Star in the East CHAPTER XXXIII. A Little Dinner in an Hour CHAPTER XXXIV. Mr. Barlow CHAPTER XXXV. On an Amateur Beat CHAPTER XXXVI. A Fly-Leaf in a Life CHAPTER XXXVII. A Plea for Total Abstinence LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _Time and his Wife_ _A Cheap Theatre_ _The City Personage_ _Titbull’s Alms-Houses_ I HIS GENERAL LINE OF BUSINESS ALLOW me to introduce myself—first negatively.