Contributions to All The Year Round

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Dickens Charles. Contributions to All The Year Round

ANNOUNCEMENT IN "HOUSEHOLD WORDS" OF THE APPROACHING PUBLICATION OF "ALL THE YEAR ROUND"

THE POOR MAN AND HIS BEER

FIVE NEW POINTS OF CRIMINAL LAW

LEIGH HUNT: A REMONSTRANCE

THE TATTLESNIVEL BLEATER

THE YOUNG MAN FROM THE COUNTRY

AN ENLIGHTENED CLERGYMAN

RATHER A STRONG DOSE

THE MARTYR MEDIUM

THE LATE MR. STANFIELD

A SLIGHT QUESTION OF FACT

LANDOR'S LIFE

ADDRESS WHICH APPEARED SHORTLY PREVIOUS TO THE COMPLETION OF THE TWENTIETH VOLUME (1868), INTIMATING A NEW SERIES OF "ALL THE YEAR ROUND"

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Philosewers expressing, in reply, his willingness to gratify the dreary sage, an appointment was made for the purpose. And on the day fixed, I, the Dreary one, accompanied by Philosewers, went down Nor'-West per railway, in search of temperate temperance. It was a thunderous day; and the clouds were so immoderately watery, and so very much disposed to sour all the beer in Hertfordshire, that they seemed to have taken the pledge.

But, the sun burst forth gaily in the afternoon, and gilded the old gables, and old mullioned windows, and old weathercock and old clock-face, of the quaint old house which is the dwelling of the man we sought. How shall I describe him? As one of the most famous practical chemists of the age? That designation will do as well as another – better, perhaps, than most others. And his name? Friar Bacon.

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10. – Any member wishing to give up his allotment, may apply to the committee, and they shall value the crop and the condition of the ground. The amount of the valuation shall be paid by the succeeding tenant, who shall be allowed to enter on any part of the allotment which is uncropped at the time of notice of the leaving tenant.

11. – Any member not keeping his allotment-garden clear from seed- weeds, or otherwise injuring his neighbours, may be turned out of his garden by the votes of two-thirds of the committee, one month's notice being given to him.

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