Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-12-15
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Large hot rhere w,@Lp,s ~ u a thIlas
ta,a lIprt u
! ThRcketay 'ke most AngloNndW
Infants was seat Shcn he was
hve years OF ug1 10 tno mother,
try for mental and physical uol}
! mcnt An aunt with whom no WM
discovered The child one moruiug pa
radug about IN HIS uucle's hat which
exactly iittol him Fearing some
! abnormal and dangerous, develop.
mont OF the brain she carFiad him az
/ once to q famous physician ol che day
/ who - reported 20 have said Don't
| be afraid ni'dHnk ne has alargc head
but thares "a COOL dent ia IL" Ills
brain wbrn he died ATTY three yaars
later Weighed tihy.oight ana hale
/ ounces la lSil Charlotte Broars
@r,ic OF lhackerayi 10 mo the
broad jrnw seems 10 oNpr&ss IN.
tclleol tCldu lIuns about tho
nose and checE batrny the sutlrI,t aud
oyulc; tthe mouth Indicate, a child,
like simplicity parlaps oven q DO
gree OF irrasolutcne,A lncon sistoncg
weakness, in short bat wcalsunss
not un6ninblt. Aud Mr. Motley
writing To hls vito la lS6S said II
believe You have newer soon Thack-
cray; he hns the appearances OF n col.
ossal infant smooth white Ginning
riugloly hnir laNon Hla,l with al
tanoing years, roundlsh face, with
little dab ot nose upon which n
Is u poluul wonder how he N0eps hls
spectaclos This hrolScn nose was
always i source OF amusement to
Thackcray himscl' he caricaturcd IL
Ia his drawings h. frequently alluded
to Il IN h,s spipah Nnd Ia his lcttort
aud he was fond OF repeating Douglg
Jcrrud's rrmark TO him when he W
10 stuRd 81 godfather 90 a friends |
Lord 1harkeraE hppo
won't present tho child with
own mug
II lam ploasanl 10 look non tb1
face OF In1ClJartyF-th faro ~ watch
We love 10 think so pcnsnutly 40
distorted 10y death lla wao found
deal In hi, bad on lhe morning. of
Docomb6r ~ 1854 so Young
man, rs JioBms wrote that tho
mother who blessed ltim IN his arst
sleep blessed him Ia hts last Pho
final words he corrected ln print
continued Dickens oworc Aud my
hcart throbhod with mn exquisite
blIss," God grant that on that
Christmas nyo when he laid his head
bnck on hta pillow and throw up hisl
arms a. he had been won't 10 do " en-,
vuiy weary some consciousness %
duty done and hristiuu hope
throughout lito humbly cherished
may hava caused hls heart SO to throb
when no passed away 10 his Redeem
ol's rost,' and 10 y said fback
cray himself once OF the most boar
tlful character Ia all hction bis own
Thomas Nowcome And To- no
whose heart was ~ tint OF Il llttlo
child had answered to his namc aud
stood IN tho presence OF Tho Masterl'
we think OF BLACKBERRY wrote
" 'abu BrnS1 OF kdlnburg as Of
our own Chalme- found dodd Ia
like manneri the kaud-rHnufta uu.
spoiled open fareS tho same geh,l
mouth tho same \spaoiousness AMI
soltnoss OF nature the samo look OF
Nowor What 4, dining TO lh nix OF
M lying lhoro atone IN the dark IN
the mldst Of his own mighty London;
his mother aud his duugRt tors asleep
and ltmay be, dreaming VI his good.
ness ling years OF sOrA0W labor
aud pain bad killed him ketorc his
time II was found after doAth how
little life ho had to live llJ\loolsed
always fresh with that aboundhg sill
yer hair aud his loving almost in
funtilo face but 10 was worn TO u
shadow and his hands wasted as IL
by eighty years
The cast OF rhackoray faces writes
Laurence Hutton in llnrpcr's was
made by Brueoianl on that sad Christ
mas morning Mt tho request Of Dr.
how Sir Henry Thompson; and cast
OF his right hand was made Nt the
same tmo-.that honest faithful.
beautiful, wasted right hand which
never wlis u battery. y
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