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Show Tlloj llltVrn. Down. "1 am n great admirer of tlio works nl CI arlea Dickrus, but I li id a ver) jioor orlnlon of the man," enld L. C Court ney, now stopping at tho Lmleilp "Dlckena was a crank of apryoiTin alio cloaa. Many iiecnllirltlea moy properly lie exiusol In a man ef genius, lint boundlesa egotl'm mid bid tasto are not of tho uumbi r. When the author of the 'Fickwick Foiktb' vljltod America lio aiicceoloil, by his boorltli lnAiitic.ro, In illscntbrallinthouanndaof liitMor-elillicra liitMor-elillicra on this tido of tlio Atlantic. He dressed 'loud,' nnd liU manners wro iMii more stunning than hh drern. (e iuo great pedestrian, nn 1 took lo-ig tnimpa cery morning. When ho wis in Washington 1 1 ict him ono morning on tho ate) a of tho Capitol V tth um was a J oticg congressman from Tinni-a-tee, uhom tho treat novelist had olTcnded by his boorinhnoM. "That morning Dkkena wn In gnat pooil humor nnd fnll ef talk, 'lhuc,' raid bo, 'found tin nlmott exact tountcr art of Utile Kell 'I.lttlo Nell who ' imcriedtheTennraMfnn Dirkenal xU 1 liim iver from hem) to foot ami from foot to boa 1 beforo lis rnortcil nut, My Little Kill ' 'Oil,' nil tlioTcnneaaienn, '1 dIJnt kruwjmi h-vl your daugliler with ou ' 'I an (jieakluj of the LHtln Kill ef my Action, ilr,' ntorted Did: t ns flushing. 'Oh,' aald tho liup-rtiirb rblo Tinnoaecean, 'jou write noeIs, do jinif Don't you consider that nr it her trilling otcupillon for a grown tip ram1 Dickens snorted Ilka n innrtir liorso and vent down thoarenno like Colonel 1JI11 Ht rrett on Ids blc) clc." at LouLi Olobo-Democrat. |
