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The Diary of a Nobody
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George Grossmith Weedon Grossmith
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The
Diary
of
a
Nobody
BY
GEORGE
GROSSMITH
AND
WEEDON
GROSSMITH
WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
WEEDON
GROSSMITH
A
NEW
EDITION
BRISTOL
J.
W.
ARROWSMITH,
PRINTER,
QUAY
STREET
LONDON
SIMPKIN,
MARSHALL,
HAMILTON,
KENT
&
COMPANY
LIMITED
INTRODUCTION
BY
MR.
POOTER
Why
should
I
not
publish
my
diary?
I
have
often
seen
reminiscences
of
people
I
have
never
even
heard
of,
and
I
fail
to
see—
because
I
do
not
happen
to
be
a
‘Somebody’—
why
my
diary
should
not
be
interesting.
My
only
regret
is
that
I
did
not
commence
it
when
I
was
a
youth.
CHARLES
POOTER.
The
Laurels,
Brickfield
Terrace,
Holloway.
CHAPTER
I
We
settle
down
in
our
new
home,
and
I
resolve
to
keep
a
diary.
Tradesmen
trouble
us
a
bit,
so
does
the
scraper.
The
Curate
calls
and
pays
me
a
great
compliment.
My
dear
wife
Carrie
and
I
have
just
been
a
week
in
our
new
house,
“The
Laurels,”
Brickfield
Terrace,
Holloway—
a
nice
six-roomed
residence,
not
counting
basement,
with
a
front
breakfast-parlour.
We
have
a
little
front
garden;
and
there
is
a
flight
of
ten
steps
up
to
the
front
door,
which,
by-the-by,
we
keep
locked
with
the
chain
up.
Cummings,
Gowing,
and
our
other
intimate
friends
always
come
to
the
little
side
entrance,
which
saves
the
servant
the
trouble
of
going
up
to
the
front
door,
thereby
taking
her
from
her
work.
We
have
a
nice
little
back
garden
which
runs
down
to
the
railway.
We
were
rather
afraid
of
the
noise
of
the
trains
at
first,
but
the
landlord
said
we
should
not
notice
them
after
a
bit,
and
took
£2
off
the
rent.
He
was
certainly
right;
and
beyond
the
cracking
of
the
garden
wall
at
the
bottom,
we
have
suffered
no
inconvenience.
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