More Dickens

What with a big production of Waiting for Godot coming up, I want to draw everyone's attention to Chapter V of The Uncommercial Traveller, Dickens' late writings. It's called 'Poor Mercantile Jack', but it may as well be called 'Waiting for Jack'. Etext here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/unctr10h.htm