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Show Knife Pickwick Handled. There is a first-rate anecdote In Mr. J. ,7. Hissey's book, "Gossip of the Bond," concerning the popularity of Dickons or Pickwick. One of (ho two, but which one? Mr. Ilissey was staying at the Angel, In Bury St. Edmunds, Ed-munds, and was reflecting aloud on the fact that Mr. Pickwick was supposed to have slaved there, when his host indignantly in-dignantly exclaimed: "Supposed! This, sir, is the very inn where lie stopped. I've (lie very carving knife that Mr. Pickwick used when he was here." Christian Science Monitor. |