And he was never without enthusiastic multitudes to listen to his recitals, and to share their means with the poor and afflicted.
We might fill this little story with a detailed account of his journeyings; but a summary account is all that is at present necessary.
We shall afterwards return to the subject.
Endnotes to Chapter VIII.
{1} Mr.George Dolby, in his work 'Charles Dickens as I knew him,' tells "the story of the famous 'reading tours,' the most brilliantly successful enterprises that were ever undertaken." Chappell and Co.

paid him 1500 sterling for thirty readings in London and the provinces, by which they realised 5000 sterling.

Arthur Smith and Mr.Headland were his next managers, and finally Mr.George Dolby.

The latter says that Mr.Dickens computed the money he netted under the Smith and Headland management at about 12,000 sterling; and under Dolby's management "he cleared nearly 33,000 sterling." {2} In Gascon: "Las carreros diouyon fleuri, Tan gran poete bay sourti; Diouyon fleuri, diouyon graua, Tan gran poete bay passa.".