The Internal Economy of Dotheboys Hall

Phiz (Hablot K. Browne)

Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby

1838

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Source: J. A. Hammerton, The Dickens Picture-Book, p. 151.

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Mrs. Squeers stood at one of the desks, presiding over an immense basin of brimstone and treacle, of which delicious compound she administered a large instalment to each boy in succession: using for the purpose a common wooden spoon, which might have been originally manufactured for some gigantic top, and which widened every young gentleman's mouth considerably; they being all obliged, under heavy corporal penalties, to take in the whole of the bowl at a gasp. [Ch. 8]

References

Hammerton, J. A. The Dickens Picture-Book. London: Educational Book, 1910.

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