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George Cruikshank’s Omnibus

by George Cruikshank

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  1. 1Title page
  2. 2Our Preface
  3. 3George Cruikshank’s Omnibus
  4. 4My Last Pair of Hessian Boots
  5. 5On a Wicked Shoemaker
  6. 6Love Seeking a Lodging
  7. 7Chapter I
  8. 8Monument to Napoleon!
  9. 9Photographic Phenomena, or the New School of Portrait-Painting
  10. 10Punch V. Law
  11. 11“Original Poetry:” by the Late Sir Fretful Plagiary, Knight
  12. 12Chapter II
  13. 13Love Has Legs
  14. 14Bernard Cavanagh
  15. 15The Ass on the Ladder
  16. 16Omnibus Chat
  17. 17“A Scene Near Hogsnorton
  18. 18Enigma
  19. 19To William Charles Macready
  20. 20A Large Order
  21. 21“My Vote and Interest”
  22. 22The Census
  23. 23Love’s Masquerading
  24. 24Chapter III
  25. 25Chapter IV
  26. 26The Livery — Out of London
  27. 27Omnibus Chat
  28. 28Legend of van Diemen’s Land
  29. 29The Girl and the Philosopher
  30. 30The Grave of the Suicide (Who Thought Better of It)
  31. 31A Rigid Sense of Duty
  32. 32Frights!
  33. 33A Peep at a “Leg-of-Beef Shop”
  34. 34A Few Notes on Unpaid Letters
  35. 35First Discovery of van Demons’ Land
  36. 36Chapter V
  37. 37The Muffin-Man
  38. 38A Tiger-Hunt in England
  39. 39Omnibus Chat — Ingenious Rogueries
  40. 40The Sister Sciences; or, Botany and Horticulture
  41. 41A Negro Boy in the West Indies
  42. 42The Terrific Legend of the Kilkenny Cats
  43. 43Mademoiselle Rachel
  44. 44Frights! — No. II
  45. 45A Short Cruise at Margate
  46. 46Epigrams
  47. 47Passionate People
  48. 48Our New Cooks!
  49. 49A Song of Contradictions
  50. 50Chapter VI
  51. 51A Warm Reception
  52. 52Tea-Table Tattle
  53. 53Omnibus Chat
  54. 54The Fashions
  55. 55Playbills and Playgoing
  56. 56One of the Curiosities of Literature
  57. 57An Incident of Travel
  58. 58“Here’s a Bit of Fat for You!”
  59. 59Heiress Presumptive
  60. 60Mrs. Toddles
  61. 61Frights! — No. III
  62. 62Little Spitz
  63. 63“This Night Vauxhall Will Close for Ever!”
  64. 64A Tale of the Times of Old
  65. 65An Anacreontic Fable
  66. 66Chapter VII
  67. 67How to Raise the Wind
  68. 68A Peep at Bartholomew Fair
  69. 69Omnibus Chat — The Association of Ideas
  70. 70The Laceman’s Lament
  71. 71The Height of Impudence!
  72. 72An Apparent Case of Determined Suicide
  73. 73The Artificial Floor for Skating
  74. 74Duns Demonstrated
  75. 75The Second Sleeper Awakened
  76. 76Just Going Out
  77. 77Chapter VIII
  78. 78A Theatrical Curiosity
  79. 79Sliding-Scales
  80. 80Sketches Here, There, and Everywhere
  81. 81Another Curiosity of Literature
  82. 82A Horrible Passage in My Early Life
  83. 83Two of a Trade
  84. 84Omnibus Chat
  85. 85The Two Naval Heroes
  86. 86Tar and Feathers
  87. 87An Acatalectic Monody!
  88. 88Third Meeting of the Bright-ish Association for the Advancement of…
  89. 89A Highway Adventure
  90. 90Some Account of the Life and Times of Mrs. Sarah Toddles!
  91. 91The Fire at the Tower of London
  92. 92Miss Adelaide Kemble
  93. 93Jack Gay, Abroad and at Home
  94. 94The King of Brentford’s Testament
  95. 95Chapter IX
  96. 96Chapter X
  97. 97The Fire-King Flue
  98. 98A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Leakey
  99. 99Omnibus Chat
  100. 100The Clerk
  101. 101Section D — Zoology and Botany
  102. 102Playing on the Piano
  103. 103November Weather
  104. 104Mrs. Toddles
  105. 105Jack-o’lantern
  106. 106What Do You Do That for?
  107. 107Lines by a Y — G L — Y of F — Sh — N,
  108. 108The Frolics of Time
  109. 109A Peep Poetic at the Age
  110. 110A Still-life Sketch
  111. 111A Tale of an Inn
  112. 112“Such a Duck!”
  113. 113Chapter XI
  114. 114Chapter XII
  115. 115The Postilion
  116. 116“The Horse by the Head”
  117. 117A Floating Recollection
  118. 118The Paupers’ Chaunt
  119. 119Sketches Here, There, and Everywhere
  120. 120Mrs. Toddles
  121. 121Sonnet to Mrs. Sarah Toddles
  122. 122Postscript

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