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Doctor Marigold

by Charles Dickens

is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per-son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her ownrisk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyoneassociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materialcontained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way.

Doctor Marigold

by Charles Dickens

the Pennsylvania State University,

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, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro-duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature,in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.Cover Design: Jim ManisCopyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University

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Charles Dickens

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am a Cheap Jack, and my own father’s name wasWillum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed bysome that his name was William, but my own fatheralways consistently said, No, it was Willum. On whichpoint I content myself with looking at the argumentthis way: If a man is not allowed to know his own namein a free country, how much is he allowed to know in aland of slavery? As to looking at the argument throughthe medium of the Register, Willum Marigold come intothe world before Registers come up much,—and wentout of it too. They wouldn’t have been greatly in hisline neither, if they had chanced to come up before him.I was born on the Queen’s highway, but it was theKing’s at that time. A doctor was fetched to my ownmother by my own father, when it took place on a com-mon; and in consequence of his being a very kind gentle-man, and accepting no fee but a tea-tray, I was namedDoctor, out of gratitude and compliment to him. Thereyou have me. Doctor Marigold.I am at present a middle-aged man of a broadish build,in cords, leggings, and a sleeved waistcoat the strings of which is always gone behind. Repair them how youwill, they go like fiddle-strings. You have been to thetheatre, and you have seen one of the wiolin-playersscrew up his wiolin, after listening to it as if it had beenwhispering the secret to him that it feared it was out of order, and then you have heard it snap. That’s as ex-actly similar to my waistcoat as a waistcoat and a wiolincan be like one another.I am partial to a white hat, and I like a shawl roundmy neck wore loose and easy. Sitting down is myfavourite posture. If I have a taste in point of personal jewelry, it is mother-of-pearl buttons. There you haveme again, as large as life.The doctor having accepted a tea-tray, you’ll guess