Show she remembers elia ella probably mrs coo of london is the only person living in england who has personal recollections of charles lamb says the new york mall mail and atil express more than seventy years ago she was a little girl living at the water mill and because of her quickness in catching a mh mis chievous levous ch idea she was a great favor ite with the genial essayist some ot of ner nor recollections E V lucas the well known lamb scholar has trans scribed as the result of recent con with her she remembers lambs affected conviction that her hair curled only by artificial means and his repeated warnings at bed time that she must not forget to put it in papers to beggars she says he always gave just what his hand happened to draw from his pocket he waa was fond of treating the village children to candy his favorite con faction being gibraltar rock here Is a pen picture of him as he appeared to the child his clothes were rusty and shabby like a poor dissenting minister ministers s he was very thin and looked halt starved partly the effect of high cheekbones he ile wore knee breeches and gaiters and a high stock ho he carried a walking stick with which he used to strike at pebbles he smoked a black clay pipe no one would have taken him for what he was but he was clearly a man apart he ile took pleasure in looking eccel trie |