There must be a splendid operation, though, to-morrow--magnificent sight if Slasher does it.' 'You consider Mr.Slasher a good operator ?' said Mr.Pickwick.

'Best alive,' replied Hopkins.

'Took a boy's leg out of the socket last week--boy ate five apples and a gingerbread cake--exactly two minutes after it was all over, boy said he wouldn't lie there to be made game of, and he'd tell his mother if they didn't begin.' 'Dear me!' said Mr.Pickwick, astonished.
'Pooh! That's nothing, that ain't,' said Jack Hopkins.

'Is it, Bob ?' 'Nothing at all,' replied Mr.Bob Sawyer.
'By the bye, Bob,' said Hopkins, with a scarcely perceptible glance at Mr.Pickwick's attentive face, 'we had a curious accident last night.

A child was brought in, who had swallowed a necklace.' 'Swallowed what, Sir ?' interrupted Mr.Pickwick.