Arizona republican., 1892-09-09
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 sented to the harmonic meeting his ad- mirable impersonation of that important official
 So. far Identification is plain sailing But where was the famous rag and bot tie shop, whose gin soaked proprietor died from spontaneous combustion? Mir Rimmer, in About London with Dick ems. is silent on the subject The writer of "Dickens' London" thinks it must have stood in Bishops court hard by for no other reason apparently than the fact of its being ian old, narrow, dreary, decaying and mournful passage, just the place in which such people as the poor law writer and crazy Miss Elite would have made home."
 But careful study of every allusion made by Dickens to the locality will, think, show that Mir. Pemberton is probably mistaken. Krooks shop is spoken of as flying and being in the shadow of the wall" -- 'blinded by the wall" No house in Bishops court exactly answers to this descrip- tion. On the contrary, the only likely ore at the corner next to Old Sol's faces an open passageway which leads to New square Krook's must therefore be sought for at Nos. and in the Rents (now occupied by a law stationery, opposite the Old Ship, fronting the court on one side and on the other "within couple of yards off and entirely blinded by the wall" so often referred to in the narrative:
 Miss Elite, meeting Esther Summer son and the wards in chancery one morn ing in Old square, invited them to come and see her lodgings. So close by did she live that, slipping out at a little side gate" she stepped most unexpect- edly in narrow back street" Star yard, leading to Carey street., ''part of some courts and lanes immediately outside the wall of the inn," and she was at home. She lodged in garret at the top of Krook's shop, described as "blind- ed by the wall of Lincoln's Inn, which intercepted the light within couple of yards" She lived in pretty large room, from which she had glimpse of the roof of Lincoln's Inn hall; the new one, be it remembered, for the old hall is entirely shut out from view by the tall houses in old buildings.
 It is during the visit that the poor little creature draws aside the curtain of the long, low garret window and calls attention to number of bird cages hanging there, whose occupants Lady Jane, the cat, is forever striving to de- your, crouching lon the parapst outside | for hours and hours" This is conclusive testimony, for no other house in either court--save the Old Ship-possesses an attic with an outside parapet The win dows are mostly formers, or flush with the wall, while from no other garret window-except Sols-can glimpse of the old hall roof he had. This can readily be tested by standing close to the hall and looking through the trees toward Chichester Rents, where the slated top story and long, low garret window of the rag and bottle shop may be identified.
 In miserable back room on the sec- ond floor of this dismal abode Captain Hawdon, alias Memo, was found dead by Mir. Tulldnghorn and Krook-dying by his own hands from an overdose of opium. ITO hemmed in churchyard, pestiterous and obscene, they take our dear brother here departed and lower him. down foot or two" On the steps leading to this charnelhouse Dame Burden finds her mother, with one arm creeping around bar of the iron gate and seeming to embrace it." This spot is rather hard to find, but walk up Catherine street from the Strand, and half way up on the right turn into Rus sell court leading into Drury lane, and midway to the left of this passage, is the approach to the "consecrated ground"
 The little tunnel of a court is much as it was forty years ago. But the lamp is gone, and the old iron gate is not the one depicted by H. K. Browne. Chil- dren now play as best they can on the asphalted surface of the hemmed in area, where once poor Jo saw the mortal remains of the stranger who had been "werry good" to him put into the ground "werry nigh the top. "-St. James Ga- l 1atta