Show was vu george A sila sala writes of dickens a aa s follows he ile was exact even to the painful stage of ex exactitude aas it ud I 1 in e every very transaction ol 01 me and be he expected his guests toben to be as punctual and exact ashe as he was himself I 1 in n november ISM on the eve of my departure tor for new york I 1 missed bidding him farewell because I 1 win was late in keeping an appointment which le he had made tor for ft a final handshake when I 1 was at gads I 1 had come to know my hosts ways better and was a HI punctual as the income tax collector we kept military time at all our but it was be bc breakfast and nua luncheon that dick ens love ct method mol molt 81 strongly n gly asserted itself he expected nil all ano and d every one of his bis guests who earned a I 1 livelihood ivel I 1 hood by their pen to do some kind of 0 literary work in the interval just mentioned our party during my stay at gada gads hill only comprised in addition to our host and the in members embers of his ila family wilkle at and d charlie colllns collins andrew halliday the dramatist and your humble servant we were all told off to work at halt half past 10 a in and expected to keep nt at it till a quarter to 2 p ni the day on which I 1 arrived was saturday and I 1 abominate working on the last day of the week which aich these thirty live years has been in my y sabbath fortunately I 1 had brought down with me a double set of proofs of a book on the paris exhibition which I 1 was bringing out one set I 1 had bad fully corrected before leaving london so during my three hours boun and odd segregation from society I 1 I 1 trifled with the blank proofs and drew skeletons of the Tr addles order on t the he margins dickens had put me in his own study preferring to work himself that mornine morning in a pretty swiss swim chalet in the grounds the gift of his friend charles Fe feebler eliter and when I 1 tore up tip my spare hot set of proofs with the tile bogus correction corrections I 1 succeeded in more than half filling that famous waste paper basket you wot off where alkie and charles colllns collins and andrew halliday were lodged and what manner of work they accomplished I 1 have forgotten I 1 was assassin atol lv insider era hired by bin fils wife who bettit bilat ho lie had hail put her name in a list of ha lv intended to destroy wo we believe that tho the present license tax ordinance Is radically wrone and should be repealed A new ordinance should bo be enacted based upon equitable prin principles cl to the end that alt all business benefited benen ted thereby shall pay day to th the 0 city in just proportion to the benefits rece received ived ogden city republican platform we favor needed public improvements consistent wl with it t the I 1 to condition of the cites finances and adjusted so as not to be burdensome upon the people ogden city republican platform |