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Show WILLING TO SHARE PENNIES Generous Act of Street Waif That Gained Him a Friend In Great Novelist. Charles Dickens, the creator of many delightful child characters, earned a million dollars during his lifetime with his pen, but often walked walk-ed tite streets of London in search of material for his books without a penny in his pocket. One evening while doing this he was accosted by a small boy who asked him for a penny. Dickens searched search-ed his pockets, but they were empty, and so he told the boy, who was shivering shiv-ering in the cold. "Poor man!" exclaimed the little fellow, "we'll go hunks together!" Dickens stood back in the shauow of the street to see what the outcome would be. The lad continted to beg, and finally gained two pennies. He came dancing to Dickens with a jolly ring in his voice. "Now," he said, "we'll have two hot buns apiece!" Such a generous spirit under such trying circumstances struck Dickens so forcibly that he took the lad home with him, and there he was fed and clothed, and started on the road to a better life. |