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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422
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Title: Chambers' Edinburgh Journal Volume XVII., No 422, New Series, January 31, 1852
Author: Various
Editor: Robert Chambers and William Chambers
Release Date: July 7, 2005 [EBook #16228]
Language: English
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CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL
CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c.
No. 422. NEW SERIES. SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1852. PRICE 1-1/2 _d._
THE HAPPY JACKS.
'On Saturday, then, at two--humble hours, humble fare; but plenty, and good of its kind; with a talk over old fellows and old times.'
Such was the pith of an invitation to dinner, to accept which I started on a pleasant summer Saturday on the top of a Kentish-town omnibus. My host was Happy Jack. Everybody called him 'Happy Jack:' he called himself 'Happy Jack.' He believed he was an intensely 'Happy' Jack. Yet his friends shook their heads, and the grandest shook theirs the longest, as they added the ominous addendum of 'Poor Devil' to 'Happy Jack.'
'Seen that unhappy wretch, Happy Jack, lately?'
'Seen him! of course, yesterday: h