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We
will
frankly
acknowledge
that
,
up
to
the
period
of
our
being
first
immersed
in
the
voluminous
papers
of
the
Pickwick
Club
,
we
had
never
heard
of
Eatanswill
;
we
will
with
equal
candour
admit
that
we
have
in
vain
searched
for
proof
of
the
actual
existence
of
such
a
place
at
the
present
day
.
Knowing
the
deep
reliance
to
be
placed
on
every
note
and
statement
of
Mr
.
Pickwick
’
s
,
and
not
presuming
to
set
up
our
recollection
against
the
recorded
declarations
of
that
great
man
,
we
have
consulted
every
authority
,
bearing
upon
the
subject
,
to
which
we
could
possibly
refer
.
We
have
traced
every
name
in
schedules
A
and
B
,
without
meeting
with
that
of
Eatanswill
;
we
have
minutely
examined
every
corner
of
the
pocket
county
maps
issued
for
the
benefit
of
society
by
our
distinguished
publishers
,
and
the
same
result
has
attended
our
investigation
.
We
are
therefore
led
to
believe
that
Mr
.
Pickwick
,
with
that
anxious
desire
to
abstain
from
giving
offence
to
any
,
and
with
those
delicate
feelings
for
which
all
who
knew
him
well
know
he
was
so
eminently
remarkable
,
purposely
substituted
a
fictitious
designation
,
for
the
real
name
of
the
place
in
which
his
observations
were
made
.
We
are
confirmed
in
this
belief
by
a
little
circumstance
,
apparently
slight
and
trivial
in
itself
,
but
when
considered
in
this
point
of
view
,
not
undeserving
of
notice
.
In
Mr
.
Pickwick
’
s
note
-
book
,
we
can
just
trace
an
entry
of
the
fact
,
that
the
places
of
himself
and
followers
were
booked
by
the
Norwich
coach
;
but
this
entry
was
afterwards
lined
through
,
as
if
for
the
purpose
of
concealing
even
the
direction
in
which
the
borough
is
situated
.
We
will
not
,
therefore
,
hazard
a
guess
upon
the
subject
,
but
will
at
once
proceed
with
this
history
,
content
with
the
materials
which
its
characters
have
provided
for
us
.
It
appears
,
then
,
that
the
Eatanswill
people
,
like
the
people
of
many
other
small
towns
,
considered
themselves
of
the
utmost
and
most
mighty
importance
,
and
that
every
man
in
Eatanswill
,
conscious
of
the
weight
that
attached
to
his
example
,
felt
himself
bound
to
unite
,
heart
and
soul
,
with
one
of
the
two
great
parties
that
divided
the
town
—
the
Blues
and
the
Buffs
.
Now
the
Blues
lost
no
opportunity
of
opposing
the
Buffs
,
and
the
Buffs
lost
no
opportunity
of
opposing
the
Blues
;
and
the
consequence
was
,
that
whenever
the
Buffs
and
Blues
met
together
at
public
meeting
,
town
-
hall
,
fair
,
or
market
,
disputes
and
high
words
arose
between
them
.
With
these
dissensions
it
is
almost
superfluous
to
say
that
everything
in
Eatanswill
was
made
a
party
question
.
If
the
Buffs
proposed
to
new
skylight
the
market
-
place
,
the
Blues
got
up
public
meetings
,
and
denounced
the
proceeding
;
if
the
Blues
proposed
the
erection
of
an
additional
pump
in
the
High
Street
,
the
Buffs
rose
as
one
man
and
stood
aghast
at
the
enormity
.
There
were
Blue
shops
and
Buff
shops
,
Blue
inns
and
Buff
inns
—
there
was
a
Blue
aisle
and
a
Buff
aisle
in
the
very
church
itself
.
Of
course
it
was
essentially
and
indispensably
necessary
that
each
of
these
powerful
parties
should
have
its
chosen
organ
and
representative
:
and
,
accordingly
,
there
were
two
newspapers
in
the
town
—
the
Eatanswill
GAZETTE
and
the
Eatanswill
INDEPENDENT
;
the
former
advocating
Blue
principles
,
and
the
latter
conducted
on
grounds
decidedly
Buff
.
Fine
newspapers
they
were
.
Such
leading
articles
,
and
such
spirited
attacks
!
—
‘
Our
worthless
contemporary
,
the
GAZETTE
’
—
‘
That
disgraceful
and
dastardly
journal
,
the
INDEPENDENT
’
—
‘
That
false
and
scurrilous
print
,
the
INDEPENDENT
’
—
‘
That
vile
and
slanderous
calumniator
,
the
GAZETTE
;
’
these
,
and
other
spirit
-
stirring
denunciations
,
were
strewn
plentifully
over
the
columns
of
each
,
in
every
number
,
and
excited
feelings
of
the
most
intense
delight
and
indignation
in
the
bosoms
of
the
townspeople
.
Mr
.
Pickwick
,
with
his
usual
foresight
and
sagacity
,
had
chosen
a
peculiarly
desirable
moment
for
his
visit
to
the
borough
.
Never
was
such
a
contest
known
.
The
Honourable
Samuel
Slumkey
,
of
Slumkey
Hall
,
was
the
Blue
candidate
;
and
Horatio
Fizkin
,
Esq
.
,
of
Fizkin
Lodge
,
near
Eatanswill
,
had
been
prevailed
upon
by
his
friends
to
stand
forward
on
the
Buff
interest
.
The
GAZETTE
warned
the
electors
of
Eatanswill
that
the
eyes
not
only
of
England
,
but
of
the
whole
civilised
world
,
were
upon
them
;
and
the
INDEPENDENT
imperatively
demanded
to
know
,
whether
the
constituency
of
Eatanswill
were
the
grand
fellows
they
had
always
taken
them
for
,
or
base
and
servile
tools
,
undeserving
alike
of
the
name
of
Englishmen
and
the
blessings
of
freedom
.
Never
had
such
a
commotion
agitated
the
town
before
.
It
was
late
in
the
evening
when
Mr
.
Pickwick
and
his
companions
,
assisted
by
Sam
,
dismounted
from
the
roof
of
the
Eatanswill
coach
.
Large
blue
silk
flags
were
flying
from
the
windows
of
the
Town
Arms
Inn
,
and
bills
were
posted
in
every
sash
,
intimating
,
in
gigantic
letters
,
that
the
Honourable
Samuel
Slumkey
’
s
committee
sat
there
daily
.
A
crowd
of
idlers
were
assembled
in
the
road
,
looking
at
a
hoarse
man
in
the
balcony
,
who
was
apparently
talking
himself
very
red
in
the
face
in
Mr
.
Slumkey
’
s
behalf
;
but
the
force
and
point
of
whose
arguments
were
somewhat
impaired
by
the
perpetual
beating
of
four
large
drums
which
Mr
.
Fizkin
’
s
committee
had
stationed
at
the
street
corner
.
There
was
a
busy
little
man
beside
him
,
though
,
who
took
off
his
hat
at
intervals
and
motioned
to
the
people
to
cheer
,
which
they
regularly
did
,
most
enthusiastically
;
and
as
the
red
-
faced
gentleman
went
on
talking
till
he
was
redder
in
the
face
than
ever
,
it
seemed
to
answer
his
purpose
quite
as
well
as
if
anybody
had
heard
him
.
The
Pickwickians
had
no
sooner
dismounted
than
they
were
surrounded
by
a
branch
mob
of
the
honest
and
independent
,
who
forthwith
set
up
three
deafening
cheers
,
which
being
responded
to
by
the
main
body
(
for
it
’
s
not
at
all
necessary
for
a
crowd
to
know
what
they
are
cheering
about
)
,
swelled
into
a
tremendous
roar
of
triumph
,
which
stopped
even
the
red
-
faced
man
in
the
balcony
.
‘
Hurrah
!
’
shouted
the
mob
,
in
conclusion
.
