Boz
.“Boz, my signature in the Morning Chronicle,” he tells us, “was the nickname of a pet child, a younger brother, whom I had dubbed Moses, in honour of the Vicar of Wakefield, which, being pronounced Bozes, got shortened into Boz.”
“Who the dickens ‘Bozʹ could be
But time revealed the mystery,
For ‘Bozʹ appeared as Dickensʹ self.”
