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Reminiscences Of Dickens

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Day
31
Month
March
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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It v;os at the Jnmenfie birthday partjes tihial IHckens seemed in aül his g'.ory. At the supper table, la lielpiii-j,- somc ïittle miss to a "trifle," he wouild assure lner wStüi all possible ■ravity that it was nio trüle at all. "Whien the writer, urged to make a little speeoh oa the occasion of Charlie's birthday, ca me to a f uil stop at the words "I am sure," Ketens at once oame to his assistaace, and: enaMed luiim to retire írom the platform too wever uaigraceiully, wilbh the remark, amoiig otters, "Arways te sure my dear loy, and yon'll get along all ïiig-Mi." At the ïittle theatrioal cntertainments Ditakens was the iilpiha and omega of the p rooeedlings. He was sometimos autluor, adlapter, coadensE(r, musioail öii'cbor, manager, ptxjmpter, aind even etage carpenter. He overtlKnved wilth energy. Dickoais, öoubtKiess remednbei'iug his o wii acute eensaitiVeness as a chilö, could ao-t wdttimgly wound a child's feeilliings. He made hun wi'fch, not of us. No party evTett" caaae ofi at Ddckens's wi'thiout "Sir Hoger de Coverlley1' being intro d-uced. Mckens ahouted wilth laughtev as some novice got baidlly miixed up in "all hands down thie miidd:ie." Oíf he darted aftev thie lost sne-ep - gonerally an awkward loy - and turned h:i3 bliushies to ftmiies by saying, "Wluat a dancer tMs boy wjffl ma.ke when he's tackleü a iliibtie miore wast baef !" or, "Isa't 'Tommy a niice youmg man for a email party ?'; Thiere vas nofcliiing off the pedag-ogiie about ham. No vulgar attemipt to pense as thie bniiliamt "Boz." 'He was B'Jmipiy a big boy, anti tue ca me do'wn tilie ladder of luis f ame to meet his feilo'ws om theiir ordinary pvatfofm - tío be ome of tihem in thir

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Ann Arbor Courier