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Show Knew His Dickens. A third form boy In a city hchool belongs be-longs to a family of Dickens worship prs who huve a kind of Dickons fellowship fellow-ship among themselves read Dickens romuV the flrcsldo In turns nt night,, , quote OIckeuH In nil sorts of llttlo "family" "fam-ily" catch phrases. Tho boy of nine took his placo in tho Scripture class recently, tho lesson had been on the story of Uriah tho Hlttltc, and tho form master was driving It homo by closo questioning. "And what," he asked, "was tho name of Uriah's wife?" Dead pause; then the volco of tho youthful Dickens scholar piped, "Please, sir, Ucepl" London Chronicle. |