//Presently, exhorted by Mr. Wardle who has removed his skates to participate, Mr. Pickwick joins fat boy Joe and Sam Weller in a pastime called “knocking at the cobbler’s door” //
// Finding all gentle remonstrance
useless, Mr. Pickwick at length yielded a reluctant consent
to his taking lodgings by the week, of a bald-headed cobbler, who
rented a small slip room in one of the upper galleries. //