Show AT birthplace DF DICKENS abw almost st a shrine awe many of the I 1 hurrying crowds pause to do reverence A great signboard jaitly covers little house where charles dickers was born charlas char las dickens arth place it 11 taya says ud ard all the burr yIng world aorl entering ent ente erics ak portsmouth pauses to look it at it IL the street road might be a street la in any large city and the home Is no alien in the vista of ugliness A years ago the traffic may have teen leen and the flowers cowers in the irani bardens not quite so BO dusty a century beads us back such each a very lo 10 long 09 cload in ai the spring of 1812 1912 we picture airs john dickens wife alte of the clerk cleric in the pay office bringing her baby boy her first son to the small windows for der a the london stage coach bound for th the portsmouth dockyard little dm did it the tired mother think as she held bim there that his alfe would one on a day affect some gome ot of ab itic 0 passengers on oa the coach the people who walked cormode in the streets street ahe thousands going about their business in portsmouth and the tens of thousands upon ands aada all ov over erthe the country whoever made so many men laugh and weep as dickens what pen has opened the doors into as anany amany lives no heart has bas every been closer to the facts of human life than that of the beardless boy who shyly v winked at his zam sam weller and sent him forth with laughter that was to ilow how into a gale on wellers footsteps they come those common and yet uncommon types he be drew forth from the bone and sinew of great britain the boy borm bom in commercial road was to be the postle apostle of everyday people and the multitude of tradesmen he wrote of would make a trades d directory fret tory T alie be ladles ladies world |