Sketches by Boz
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Contents Edit
Our parish Edit
- The beadle. The parish engine. The schoolmaster.
- The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain
- The four sisters
- The election for beadle
- The broker's man
- The ladies' societies
- Our next-door neighbour
Scenes Edit
- The streets - morning
- The streets - night
- Shops and their tenants
- Scotland Yard
- Seven Dials
- Meditations in Monmouth-Street
- Hackney-coach stands
- Doctors' Commons
- London recreations
- The river
- Astley's
- Greenwich fair
- Private theatres
- Vauxhall Gardens by day
- Early coaches
- Omnibuses
- The last cab-driver, and the first omnibus cad
- A parliamentary sketch
- Public dinners
- The first of may
- Brokers' and marine-store shops
- Gin-shops
- The pawnbroker's shop
- Criminal courts
- A visit to Newgate
Thoughts about people Edit
- Thoughts about people
- A Christmas dinner
- The New Year
- Miss Evans and the eagle
- The parlour orator
- The hospital patient
- The misplaced attachment of Mr. John Dounce
- The mistaken milliner. A tale of ambition
- The dancing academy
- Shabby-genteel people
- Making a night of it
- The prisoners' van