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Show A DISTRUST THAT WAS MUTUAL At ' Charles Dickens Didn't Admire Boat, and Pilot Had Llttlo Use for the Novelist When the Connecticut river wns more nnvlgnble than It Is today Dickens Dick-ens rode by stenmer from Springfield to Hnrtford. We nre to uipposo he got little pleasure from the trip, for In describing the steamer In his American Ameri-can Notes, he wrote: "I am afraid to tell how many feet short this vessel was, or how many feet narrow. To apply the words length and width to such measurement would bo a contradiction In terms. Hut I may state that wo nil kept to the middle of the deck lest the boat should unexpectedly Up over." 'Hut If Dickens wns critical of the boat, snys n writer In tho Springfield Republican, the pilot was no less critical crit-ical of Dickens. In venting his opinion of the novelist he characterized htm as a "fussy dude who wub afraid to Btop up on tho gnngplnnk for fear It would break, who kept his bend out of the window for fear tho boat would run against something, and who won rled for fear his baggage would be lost." In fact the pilot declared that he was so disgusted with the novelist that ho never would rend any of till stories, |