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Sketches by Boz.Pdf Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Charles Dickens Sketches by Boz His taxes are in arrear, quarter-day passes by, another quarter-day arrives: he can procure no more quarter for himself, and is summoned by—the parish. His goods by Charles Dickens are distrained, his children are crying with cold and Boz is a pseudonym of Charles Dickens hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is ly- ing, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To SKETCHES BY BOZ whom is he to apply for relief? To private charity? To benevolent individuals? Certainly not—there is his par- OUR PARISH ish. There are the parish vestry, the parish infirmary, the parish surgeon, the parish officers, the parish beadle. CHAPTER I—THE BEADLE. THE PARISH ENGINE. Excellent institutions, and gentle, kind-hearted men. THE SCHOOLMASTER. The woman dies—she is buried by the parish. The chil- dren have no protector—they are taken care of by the OW MUCH IS CONVEYED in those two short parish. The man first neglects, and afterwards cannot words—’The Parish!’ And with how many tales obtain, work—he is relieved by the parish; and when of distress and misery, of broken fortune and H distress and drunkenness have done their work upon ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and him, he is maintained, a harmless babbling idiot, in the successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, parish asylum. with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to The parish beadle is one of the most, perhaps the live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from most, important member of the local administration. day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present He is not so well off as the churchwardens, certainly, cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future. 3 Sketches by Boz nor is he so learned as the vestry-clerk, nor does he well,’ interrupts the overseer, taking a note of the ad- order things quite so much his own way as either of dress, ‘I’ll send Simmons, the beadle, to-morrow morn- them. But his power is very great, notwithstanding; ing, to ascertain whether your story is correct; and if and the dignity of his office is never impaired by the so, I suppose you must have an order into the House— absence of efforts on his part to maintain it. The beadle Simmons, go to this woman’s the first thing to-morrow of our parish is a splendid fellow. It is quite delightful morning, will you?’ Simmons bows assent, and ushers to hear him, as he explains the state of the existing the woman out. Her previous admiration of ‘the board’ poor laws to the deaf old women in the board-room (who all sit behind great books, and with their hats on) passage on business nights; and to hear what he said to fades into nothing before her respect for her lace- the senior churchwarden, and what the senior trimmed conductor; and her account of what has passed churchwarden said to him; and what ‘we’ (the beadle inside, increases—if that be possible—the marks of re- and the other gentlemen) came to the determination of spect, shown by the assembled crowd, to that solemn doing. A miserable-looking woman is called into the functionary. As to taking out a summons, it’s quite a boardroom, and represents a case of extreme destitu- hopeless case if Simmons attends it, on behalf of the tion, affecting herself—a widow, with six small chil- parish. He knows all the titles of the Lord Mayor by dren. ‘Where do you live?’ inquires one of the overseers. heart; states the case without a single stammer: and it ‘I rents a two-pair back, gentlemen, at Mrs. Brown’s, is even reported that on one occasion he ventured to Number 3, Little King William’s-alley, which has lived make a joke, which the Lord Mayor’s head footman (who there this fifteen year, and knows me to be very hard- happened to be present) afterwards told an intimate working and industrious, and when my poor husband friend, confidentially, was almost equal to one of Mr. was alive, gentlemen, as died in the hospital’—’Well, Hobler’s. 4 Charles Dickens See him again on Sunday in his state-coat and cocked- who dropped the money ventures to make one or two hat, with a large-headed staff for show in his left hand, distinct dives after it; and the beadle, gliding softly and a small cane for use in his right. How pompously he round, salutes his little round head, when it again ap- marshals the children into their places! and how pears above the seat, with divers double knocks, ad- demurely the little urchins look at him askance as he ministered with the cane before noticed, to the intense surveys them when they are all seated, with a glare of delight of three young men in an adjacent pew, who the eye peculiar to beadles! The churchwardens and cough violently at intervals until the conclusion of the overseers being duly installed in their curtained pews, sermon. he seats himself on a mahogany bracket, erected ex- Such are a few traits of the importance and gravity of pressly for him at the top of the aisle, and divides his a parish beadle—a gravity which has never been dis- attention between his prayer-book and the boys. Sud- turbed in any case that has come under our observa- denly, just at the commencement of the communion tion, except when the services of that particularly use- service, when the whole congregation is hushed into a ful machine, a parish fire-engine, are required: then profound silence, broken only by the voice of the offici- indeed all is bustle. Two little boys run to the beadle as ating clergyman, a penny is heard to ring on the stone fast as their legs will carry them, and report from their floor of the aisle with astounding clearness. Observe own personal observation that some neighbouring chim- the generalship of the beadle. His involuntary look of ney is on fire; the engine is hastily got out, and a plen- horror is instantly changed into one of perfect indiffer- tiful supply of boys being obtained, and harnessed to it ence, as if he were the only person present who had not with ropes, away they rattle over the pavement, the heard the noise. The artifice succeeds. After putting beadle, running—we do not exaggerate—running at the forth his right leg now and then, as a feeler, the victim side, until they arrive at some house, smelling strongly 5 Sketches by Boz of soot, at the door of which the beadle knocks with pudgy little man, in black, with a thick gold watch- considerable gravity for half-an-hour. No attention be- chain of considerable length, terminating in two large ing paid to these manual applications, and the turn- seals and a key. He is an attorney, and generally in a cock having turned on the water, the engine turns off bustle; at no time more so, than when he is hurrying to amidst the shouts of the boys; it pulls up once more at some parochial meeting, with his gloves crumpled up in the work-house, and the beadle ‘pulls up’ the unfortu- one hand, and a large red book under the other arm. As nate householder next day, for the amount of his legal to the churchwardens and overseers, we exclude them reward. We never saw a parish engine at a regular fire altogether, because all we know of them is, that they but once. It came up in gallant style—three miles and a are usually respectable tradesmen, who wear hats with half an hour, at least; there was a capital supply of brims inclined to flatness, and who occasionally testify water, and it was first on the spot. Bang went the in gilt letters on a blue ground, in some conspicuous pumps—the people cheered—the beadle perspired pro- part of the church, to the important fact of a gallery fusely; but it was unfortunately discovered, just as they having being enlarged and beautified, or an organ re- were going to put the fire out, that nobody understood built. the process by which the engine was filled with water; The master of the workhouse is not, in our parish— and that eighteen boys, and a man, had exhausted them- nor is he usually in any other—one of that class of men selves in pumping for twenty minutes, without produc- the better part of whose existence has passed away, ing the slightest effect! and who drag out the remainder in some inferior situa- The personages next in importance to the beadle, are tion, with just enough thought of the past, to feel de- the master of the workhouse and the parish schoolmas- graded by, and discontented with the present. We are ter. The vestry-clerk, as everybody knows, is a short, unable to guess precisely to our own satisfaction what 6 Charles Dickens station the man can have occupied before; we should brought him up, and openly announced his intention think he had been an inferior sort of attorney’s clerk, or of providing for him, left him 10,000L. in his will, and else the master of a national school—whatever he was, it revoked the bequest in a codicil.
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