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Weller

(Sam). Pickwick's factotum. His wit, fidelity, archness, and wide-awakedness are inimitable. (Dickens Pickwick Papers.)

Tony Weller.
Father of Sam. Type of the old stage-coachman; portly in size, and dressed in a broad-brimmed hat, great-coat of many capes, and topboots. His stage-coach was his castle, and elsewhere he was as green as a sailor on terra firma. ( Dickens: Pickwick Papers.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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