The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1892-10-08
Lies OF DICKENS.
o,,AlNT BUILDINGS MADE FA-
.o,,s az THE NOVELIST.

:, 70 All, Are Fast disappearing {
q Old London-Dieak House.
| ,org another of the fast vanishing
s;ss peopled by the genirs Of The
novelist with characters more
rs In some respects than their
inhabitants, will be nonexistent.
rr lincoln s. lnn-felds from Great
ssraet turf - the right, pause at
! n;cture Mr.. Tulkinghorn emerg-
= evening f-om chambers where
,srs lie like maggots in nuts" I'm
him walking through the inn,
10 beneath its ancient Tudor gate
snd visiting Mr.. Snagsby, the law
ner in Cooks court. Cursitor street,
! view of ascertaining where Memo,
,,sterious law writer. lives.
I;ttle TO the south of Old Buildings,
! west side of Chancery lane, are
- court and Chichester Rents,
|latter approached through tun-
nassace alongside the Three Tuns
bouse. To the Rents came the
rentle:nen, not very neat aDout
~ and buttons" who instituted
;s;tions through the court. dived
the Soils parlor and wrote with
ous little pens on tissue ptper
sensational reports of the inquest
had Just been held at that well
Ia and popular house OF enteTtaln-'
the Old Soils Arms"
4 is the present Old Ship Tavern.
& snds at the head Of the court, fac
an one side and the wall of Lincoln
a the other. 1t is certainly ancient
n and ON the first floor can still
IN the identical long, low room
the co, .ner presided, and where
swills. the comic vocalist, pre-
j 70 the harmonic meeting his ad-
lie impersoration Of that important
III.
far identification is plain sailing.
where was the famous rag anu DOT
.hop. whose gin soaked proprietor
from spontaneous combustion! Mr.
mer in About London with Dick
Il silent on the subject. The writer
4Dckens' London" thinks 1T mus
stood in Bishops court hard by
q other reason apparently than th'
|of it's being IAN old, narrow, dreary
.ying and mournful passage, Jus
Mace in which such people as tn
law writer and crazy Miss Fit
Sld have made a home"
II a careful study of every allusio
4 by Dickens to tho locality will,
N show that Mr.. Penberton
bnbly mistaken. Krook's shop
Ier of as Lying and being in I'll
dow of the wall" blinded b
vail" No house in Bishop
4 exactly answers to this descril
On the contrary. the o."
a one at the corner next to "
4 faces an open passageway whi1
4 TO New square. Krook's niu
|efore be sought for ut Nos. . al
the Rents NOW occupied by
stationery, opposite the Old SIN
ntinr the court on one side ana
other .swithin couple of yards I
entirely blinded by the wall
q referred to in the narrative.
|liss Elite, meeting Esther Summ'
and the wards in chancery one MOI
IN Old square, invited them to col
zee her lodgings. So close by {
live that, slipping out at q Ill
rate" she stopped most unexpe
4 In a narrow back street (Star va
ling to Carey street,, part OF so
rts and lanes Immediately outs
wall of the inn," and she was
me-. She lodged in a garnet ut
q Of Krook's shop, described as "oii
by the wall of Lincoln's Inn, wii
fsrcepted the light within o couple
rds.r She lived in q pretty La
IN. from which she had a giimps'
= roof of Lincoln's Inn hall; the !
q he IL remembered. for the old
mtirely shut out from view by the
urnes in old buildings.
his during the visit that the !
- creature draws aside the cur
The long. low garnet window ana 9
nsution to a number of bird G.
Wing there, whose occupants I
q. the cat, is forever striving 70
IL. crouching ION the parapet out
hours and hours" THIS Is conci.
timony. for no other house in "a
nrt,--save the Old Ship-possesse
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