# Household words, no. 9, May 25, 1850

Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor]

Genre: English literature -- Periodicals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78174

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Household+words%2C+no.+9%2C+May+25%2C+1850+Dickens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was not often that anything happened to enliven the village of Bleaburn, in Yorkshire: but there was a day in the summer of 1811, when the inhabitants were roused from their apathy, and hardly knew themselves. A stranger was once heard to say, after some accident had compelled him to pass through Bleaburn, that he saw nothing there but a blacksmith asleep, and a couple of rabbits hung up by the heels. That the blacksmith was wholly asleep at midday might indicate that there was a public house in the place; but, even there, in that liveliest and most intellectual spot in a country village of those days,—the ale-house kitchen—the people sat half asleep. Sodden with beer, and almost witho...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-9-may-25-1850-78174/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-9-may-25-1850-78174/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-9-may-25-1850-78174/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-9-may-25-1850-78174/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-9-may-25-1850-78174/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-9-may-25-1850-78174/chapters/6/index.md)