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Show MADE IMMORTAL BY GENIUS Writer Telle of Sordid Places Tha) Are Made Drlght by Memories of Dickens, Mr. F. Hopklnson Smttn. while In London, sought "out and .visltod thq Various place mado" .Jnemorable,, by their connoctlonwlth Charles Dickens' name, Mr. Smith wait cspoclallyj Im-pressed Im-pressed by the fact that memories of, Dickens were still vivid In tha mtada of tho people. A ttttlb .printer loy showed him where Pickens earneii six shilling a work, tylng'up and labeling pots of blcklngM ', ' "Oh, I know him, gov'nor," was tho nsunl anavor'of the older inhabitants, to Mr. Smith's Inquiries. "Over thore ho used to llvo, and it nln't far from hero to Camden Town, whore he lived when ho was working in tho blacking place." Ho was oven able to find ati urchin who could point out tho spot, whero Dickons "dropped stealthily ono. evening, with fear and trembling, into, a dnrk letter box up a dark court in. Fleet stroot" tho first of tho "Sketches! by Boz." Ho was especially pleased with hlsj visit to tho houso whero Dickens went' to board after his marriage. Of this,) he says: . I "The place Is still a delightful,!! typically English boarding house, keptl j by two of the most charming old. ladles,' ' you ever saw. Dickons and his wifo occupied a little tucked-np room tacked1 on to the back of the house. I meoe-j ured the place myself and it was eight feet every way. It has ono small window, win-dow, looking out Into the back yard. It; was the moldlest and stufllest'old place' you can imaglno; but It was there thati Dickens wrote the most of the 'Plcki wick Papers.'" Youth's CompanUra. |
