Show DICKENS MADE A COLONIST for forty ive years his son to led in the austral an bush forty five years ago a keen pleas ant faced man in a green velvet waist coat might have been seen on the platform at waterloo station london at I 1 is side was a young fellow of 20 his face flushed with emotion good by my boy and pod bless you spoke the elder man do your duty and keep up your pluck the young man thought of all the good times he had had with his father of all fill the wonderful talks and gain games e s and journeys they had enjoyed together be he and the best the kindest father in all the world the tears sprang to his eyes the tv o gripped hands bands again and the train steamed away and that night england and london and rochester and gad gads a hill were shut out tor for I 1 forty alve years while the young man worked and dreamed and hoped in the aua aus aral an bush the elder man was charles D akens the younger was his son on alfred tennyson dickens god son of the poet laureate forty five years passed and then one rr ir orning alfred tennyson dick ens no longer young but with white hair arrived in his nativa native london |