Show I 1 dickens and the ghost alfred tennyson dickens the eldest surviving son eon of charles dickens related some interesting of his father in the course of an ah address dres on my fathers life and works the life at gads hill provided the lecturer with several anecdotes one related to a ghost which haunted a neighboring piece of waste landon which stood a monument to a cavalier named charles larking As aa the rnald maid servants all threatened to leave dickens armed with a double gun and his two sons with bludgeons set out to find it suddenly they saw a white object and heard an awful noise dickens cried stand fast ast or I 1 idrell it proved to be an old goat london evening standard |