Show DICKENS OWN PEN PICTURE great english novelist wrote humorously of the details of his hl dally daily life por for four fourteen toen years dickens made broadstairs Broad stairs hla his pi principal summer homo home in england loi london idon alone held a superior in his affections lie iio felt his bla powers at their amplest when he was at the little channel toast coast town dickens has haa given the best beat picture ot of himself nt at hla his summer routine in broadstairs Broad stairs in a bay window in a one pair sits bits from 9 to 1 a gentleman with rather long hair and no who writes and grins as it if he thought he ha were very fu funny anny indeed at I 1 he disappears presently p resent ly emerges from a bathing iaac machine hine and may be seen a kind of salmon colored por porpoise splashing about in the ocean after that tie he may be viewed 1 in another bay window on the ground floor eating a strong lunch and after that walking a dozen miles or so BO or lying on his hia back in the sand reading a book nobody bothers him unless they know he Is disposed to bo be talked to and I 1 am told he ha Is very comfortable indeed iles hes as brown as aa a herry berry and they do say Is A small fortune to the innkeeper who sells beer and nd cold punch cut but this Is mere rumor sometimes ho he goes up to london eighty miles or so awny away and then im told there Is a sound in Lincol ns inn fields at night as of men inen laughing together with a clinking of knives and forks and wine glasses mot most annoying its ita fent fearfully fully annoying to lose all your money on a get scheme said eald mr wad yes yea replied air lambkin such such a digap disappointment to find the most enticing propositions coming along after you have washed wasted all your available coin on a back number prospectus |