The narrator is a waiter, from a family of waiters, at a London coffee-house where a customer left a portmanteau, boots and a brown-paper parcel and never came back. Paying the bill to claim them, he finds every item stuffed with writing, and tells how he sets about publishing it.
Dickens’s comic frame pieces from the 1862 Christmas number of All the Year Round, full of his waiterly humour. Download the free EPUB.