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TRAMP’S WALLET;
storedby
AN ENGLISH GOLDSMITH
during his
Wanderings in Germany and France.
by
WILLIAM DUTHIE.
dedicated, bypermission, to charles dickens,esq.
LONDON:
DARTON AND CO., 58, HOLBORN HILL.
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[The right of Translation isreserved by the Author.]
TO
CHARLES DICKENS, ESQ.,
This Volume
is respectfully dedicated,
in grateful acknowledgment of his sympathyand
encouragement during
the publication of the greater portion of itscontents;
and as a slight tribute ofadmiration
for his unwearying labours as a publicwriter,
to the advancement of the wholepeople,
by his sincere admirer,
THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
During a stay of three years and a half in Germany and France,sometimes at work, sometimes tramping through the country, theAuthor collected a number of facts and stray notes, which he hasendeavoured in these pages to present to the public in a readableshape.
Of the twenty-eight chapters contained in the volume, sixteenoriginally appeared in “Household Words.” Theyare entitled The German Workman; Hamburg to Lübeck; Lübeck to Berlin; Fair-time at Leipsic; Down in a Silver Mine; ALift in a Cart; The Turks’Cellar; A Taste of AustrianJails; What my LandlordBelieved; A Walk through aMountain; Cause and Effect;The French Workman; Licensed to Juggle; Père Panpan; SomeGerman Sundays; and More SundaysAbroad. Several other chapters were published in aweekly newspaper; and the remainder, together with theIntroductory Narrative, appear in print for the first time. For the careful and valuable revision of that portion of his bookwhich has appeared in “Household Words,” the Authorhere begs to express his sincere thanks; and to acknowledge, inparticular, his obligation to some unknown collaborator, who, tothe paper called “The French Workman,” has added somevaluable information.
The desire of the Author in writing the Introductory Narrativewas to present to his readers a brief outline of his wholejourney, and a summary of its results; and to connect, so far asit was possible, the somewhat fragmentary contents of the body ofthe work. It was also hoped and believed that thestatistical information there given, although of so humble acharacter, would be valuable as illustrative of the socialcondition of workmen in the countries to which they refer, and ofa character hitherto rarely attempted.
Written, as these chapters were, at intervals of time, andseparately published, each paper must be taken as complete initsel