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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 the 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 lor a penny. Dickens searched search-ed his pockets, but they were empty, and so he told the hoy, who was shivering shiv-ering in the cold. "Poor man!" exclaimed the little febow, "we'll go hunks together'" Dickens stood back in the shadow of the street to see what the outcome wo lid be. The lad continued to beg, ana finally gained two pennies. Ke cane dancing to Dickens with a jolly ring in his voice. "'Vow," he said, "we'll have two hot I bur. s apiece!" Such a generous spirit under such trying eircumstam es struck Dickens so lorcibly that he took the lad home with him, and there he was fed and clothed, and started on the road to a better life. |