A Man Who Picked Up Charles Dickens.
It was my good fortune when a resident of England,' says a writer in the St. Louis ' (.Hobo Democrat, ' "to form the acquaintance of bho great master of novelists, Charles. Dickens. I picked him up from the street just as he had been knocked down by one cab and was in danger of being run over by another. He was at the time, as he always was, a reporter. That night I tramped with him through the worst slums of London. He told me his business, and in some way we became friends, and often after that I accompanied him on his night walks. Many characters that I saw on these excursions have peered at me since then from the pages, of his novels. One thing that impressed me about Dickens was that he never took notes. I never saw him with a pencil in his hand, nor did he seem to be paying any attention whatever to what was (going on around him ; yet in the newspaper articles that make up the complete volume cf' £ Sketches by Boz ' I recognised that every scene, sound, or incident of the trip had been .indelibly 'impressed upon his wonderful mind.'
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 320, 28 November 1888, Page 3
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205A Man Who Picked Up Charles Dickens. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 320, 28 November 1888, Page 3
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