THE ATTACHE

or, SAM SLICK IN ENGLAND.



By Thomas Chandler Haliburton



(Greek Text)—GREEK PROVERB.

Tell you what, report my speeches if you like, but if you put my talk in, I’ll give you the mitten, as sure as you are born.—SLICKVILLE TRANSLATION






London, July 3rd, 1843.

MY DEAR HOPKINSON,

I have spent so many agreeable hours at Edgeworth heretofore, that my first visit on leaving London, will be to your hospitable mansion. In the meantime, I beg leave to introduce to you my “Attache,” who will precede me several days. His politics are similar to your own; I wish I could say as much in favour of his humour. His eccentricities will stand in need of your indulgence; but if you can overlook these, I am not without hopes that his originality, quaint sayings, and queer views of things in England, will afford you some amusement. At all events, I feel assured you will receive him kindly; if not for his own merits, at least for the sake of

Yours always,

THE AUTHOR.

To EDMUND HOPKINSON ESQ. Edgeworth, Gloucestershire.






CONTENTS


THE ATTACHE; OR SAM SLICK IN ENGLAND.

FIRST VOLUME


CHAPTER I.   UNCORKING A BOTTLE

CHAPTER II.   A JUICY DAY IN THE COUNTRY

CHAPTER III.   TYING A NIGHT-CAP

CHAPTER IV.   HOME AND THE SEA

CHAPTER V.   T’OTHER EEND OF THE GUN

CHAPTER VI.   SMALL POTATOES AND FEW IN A HILL

CHAPTER VII.   A GENTLEMAN AT LARGE

CHAPTER VIII.   SEEING LIVERPOOL

CHAPTER IX.   CHANGING A NAME

CHAPTER X.   THE NELSON MONUMENT

CHAPTER XI.   COTTAGES

CHAPTER XII.   STEALING THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE

CHAPTER XIII.     NATUR’

CHAPTER XIV.   THE SOCDOLAGER

CHAPTER XV.   DINING OUT


THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.   THE NOSE OF A SPY

CHAPTER II.   THE PATRON; OR, THE COW’S TAIL

CHAPTER III.   ASCOT RACES

CHAPTER IV.   THE GANDER PULLING

CHAPTER V.   THE BLACK STOLE

CHAPTER VI.   THE PRINCE DE

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