Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-12-10
Perhaps Dickens may have travelled with
him; did, before steam because omnipo-

ferhaps Dickens may have travelled with
him; l did, before steam because omnipo-
tent. "-.'... '.-.'''-- .-..'-
=" II has been asserted that Mrs. Bardsll,
With whom no woman, spinster, wife or
widow, has every sympsthized, she was 80
terribly absurd, in her designs upon Mr..
Pickwick-was drawn, with free but
faithful touch, from Mrs. Ann Ellis, who
kept an eating house near Doctors Com
mons Gin Kuight.rider street, between St.
Pauls chureh.y yard and upper Thames
street, and was comely, plump and agreea-
bic.
"In the memorable trial, Bardell against
Pickwick, the presiding fuuctionary, Mr..
Justice StaYelight, was caricature, by no
means extravagant Of Sir Stephen Gaselee,
who had been junior judge of the Court
of Common Plea, At the time when Lord
Wynford (W. D. Bsst) was Chief Justice
of that court. Mr.. Serjent Busfuz is sup
posed to represent Mr.. SERGEANT Rumpus,
clustering lawyer, who was dreaded in
those days for the loud and insolent man.
ner in which he bullied witnesses"
CHEERYBLE BROTHERS.
"The Cheerybles, in tho tale we're Will
liam Grant & Brothers, cotton spinners and
calico printers, near Manchester. and
Dickens did not exaggerate the excellence
Of their disposition nor the wide range of
their practical and unobtrusive benevo-
lence. There were four brothers-Wil.
liam, Daniel, John and Charles-and the
characteristics of the family were the
strength of their fraterual affection, their
benevoleuce and generosity, and their sue
cess in business, which furnished them
with the means of exercising seemingly
unbounded hospitality and munificence.
Their father was small farmer in Monray.
shire, Scotland.
"Their vast property Of the brothers
was Inherited by their sons aud nephews:
A monument, erected on Pedle Hill be.
tween Ramsbottom aid Bury, marks the
spot where the brothers, then starting in
life, took q survey Of district, a great
portion of which was subsequently their
own by purchase. Mr.. Daniel Grant
chiefly lived, in his latter years, in his
house, Mosoly street, Manchester. His
friends it was said, had general invitation
to take the usual one o'clock dinner With
him whenever they pleased. But he never
entertained more than nine friends. There
were ten pegs in his hall, one of which
was occupied by his own broad-brim. As
his friends came in each appropriated one
Of the pegs. When the whole ten were
thus covered, the next conner, seeing that
the party was complete, left his card aud
compliments with the portly butler, and
went elsewhere to dine, determining, no
doubt, that he would endeavor to arrive
earlier next time. All that have heard,
iu their own neighborhood, about the gen.
erosity and kind feelings of William Grant
and his brothers, strongly warrants me in
stating that Dickens account Of their good
ness and primitive oddity of manner.
softeued by geniality aud beuevoleuce, was
scarcely too highly colored."
In this country, the frm Of Harper II
Brothers, publishers, were often spoken of
as the Cheerble Brothers, having many Of
the qualities which Dickens ascribes to the
famous firm.
ain Dombey 4 Son. several characters
are said to have been drawn from life, Mr..
Dombey is supposed to represent Mr.. Tho
mas Chapman, ship owner, whose Offices
were opposite the Wooden Midshipmau.
had the honor Of meeting Mr.. Chapman
at dinner Cat Lough's, the sculptor), aud
tho rigidity of his manner only equalled by
that Of his form; he sat or stood, as the
case might be, bolt upright, as if he knew
not how to bend-as stiff, in fact, as if he
had swallowed the drawing. room poker in
his youth and had never digested il. As
if to make Mr.. Chapman undoubtedly iden-.
tical with Dombey, We have as messenger
Of the commercial house Of Dombey &
Son. one Perch, actually taken from .
funny little old chap named Stephen Hale,
who was part clerk. part messenger, in Mr..
Chapman's Office. Old Sol ellis was in
tended for little fellow named Norie, who
kept small shop in Leadenhall street, ex-
actly opposite the Office of John Chapman
& Co.. in which the stock in trade COM
prised chronometers, barometers, telescopes,
compasses, charts, maps, sextants, quad.
rants, and specimens Of every kind Of in
strument used in the working Of ships
course, or the keeping Of . ships reckoning,
or the prosecuting Of ships discoveries.
In front Of this small shop stands figure,
carved in wood and curiously painted, Of .
uiuiature midshipman, with huge quad
rant 10 his hand, as if about taking an OBJ
servatiou. What is more, the little shop
and the wooden midshipman may be seen.
by tho curious, adorniug Lesdenhall street
to this very day. I speak Of the wooden
midshipman as I saw him in 1852. He
may be swept away By What is called i'm,
provemeut. Captain Cutie was one David
Mainland, master of . merchantmen, who
was introduced to Dickens on the day when
with Thomas Chapman, Daniel Maclise.
John Leeeh, Thomas Powell, and samuel
Rogers, he went to see Crosby Hall, Bish-
opgate stsect. -.
"Iu David Copperfeld,' the striking
character Of wilkins Micawber, who was
always waiting for something to turn up
was believed by many who thought them