| Show taking tailing dickens down 1 I am a great admirer of the works of charles dickens but bat I 1 had a very poor opinion of the man said L C courtney now stopping at the laded laclede e dickens v as a crank of a very offensive class alvany peculiarities way my properly be excused in a man of genius I 1 but boundless egotism and bad taste are not of the number when the author of the pickwick papers visited Ayi Aff erica terica he succeeded by his boorish manners in in enthralling disenthralling dis thousands of his bis worshipers on this side of the atlantic he dressed loud and his manners we were even more stunning than his dress lie he was a great pedestrian and took long ion 9 tra tramps amps every morning when he was in washington I 1 met him one morning on the steps of the capitol capi tol with me e was a young congressman from tennessee se e whom the great novelist hall had offended ended by his hia boorishness that morning dickens wax waa in great good humor and full of talk 11 1 I have eaid lie he found an almost exact counterpart of lettla nell little nell who queried the Tenness Tennes eean Dickens looked him over from head bead to foot and from foot to head before he snorted out my Litt little leNeIL nell oh said the Tenness eean I 1 I know you had your daughter with you 1 I am speaking of the little nell of my fiction sir retorted dickens flushing oh ob said the impert imperturbable rb Tenness eean you write novels u do you yon dont you consider thata that a rather agather trifling occupation for a grown up man dickens snorted like a quarter horse and went down the avenue like colonel bill sterrett on his bicycle st louis lonia globe democrat lemo crat |
