Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-02

horses in it's great yard In the good Old
coaching days, 1t is in this inn that
tharlcs Dickens, Win great anu mei-
GNU motive in fiction, repaired WIN his
friend and companion Hablot Brownee'
few weeks before Christmas Of lSjL
where the two remained while lHckens
secured material Tor Nicholas MCKEE
by
He had letters 10 yOcman of the
place. soon to shine as one Of the immot-
tails of fiction "a honest John Brow,lie'
He represented himself as the agent Of n
poor widow DESTROYS Of placing her only
boy in II country school, In this way he
secured admission to number In the
vicinity. though shut out Of some by the
wary masters The school" seeming
most suitable as q prototype Of them all,
from the personrl of It's savage owner
and his family. with wild and desolate
ply steal surroundings in keeping with
tue hopelessness of the schoo-life Of the
place itself, was the Dolhcboys Hall,
still standing in Bowes-hardly stones
throw from the ancient Unicorn inn,
yhe house nov being occupied by ''old
man Bonsiiela,' husband OF the VERT
able Squeer's daughter, Fanny Suueers,.
known IN life as Mary Ann ShaW-whcrc
Nicholas Niclleby." his protege in mis-
cry the wretched "Smike.' aud scores of
other helpless young lives, are depicted
as having undergone almost incon.
celvable life of servitude, starvation aud
cruelty.
Investigation showed that the horrible
picture drawn was not an congregation.
and bore out Dickens own statement In
the original preface tbnt mir Suuecrs
and his school nre faint and fechle mic.
tres Of an existing reality. purpIsSly sub
dued md kent down lrsi thpv sbnnId
be- deemed impossibleN This. DICKENS
second time. and In some rpspects. IN
greatest. novel was begun in April. 1873.
appearance of the first mart he RIM nwny
from London. as he always aid. TO re-
main in hiding until a distinct measure
of public favor or disfayor was shown,
In the case of Nicholas Nickleby" his
forgiy1ble skulkcry was of short dura-
tion. The first days sales Of the first
part exceeded 10000 copies Not six
and cruelty to helpless scholars in these
remote prison-pens were abaicd. and be-
fore the last chapter of Nicholas Nick
leby had been read. the public feeling,
which in many portions of the country
barely csc. ped expression IN riot. had
annihiated every cllild-hell Of the Dothe-
boys Han variety in England.
1t you came from London TO BOwes
over the same concl-road as did Nicholas
Niekleby. when, nearing the end of his
dreary Journey, "at about o'clock that
night, he and Mr.. SQueers aud the little
down, at The George and New lnn,' you
Mouiu naVe CONC by lhe Ola coaeh-road
n IIoni lnaoh Ehlnbnigh ana Slescow.
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W. ~, ny suinc S'vr ~, i"nu' st'In AEil-
I'm, =" uouIHS iaVIih5 uru El5peiHr
SerNius himself, nave tluuen towards Tue
nhconsiu nin norm upon u. me latIer
ieit p'VOu OF his ARMY uead along me
Scotch niis,s .ln mountains i' ana WIN
MS lace ~ yoMaIu hohlv hhh nome,
ohiy iehchen iorN 10 pie oi ms wounds
ahu chnerih'
1t Is the great Roman road Of En-
gland. Waiting, or Waithling, street
IL is called, Away In the north Of York
shire few miles above Catteriell
bridge, one stem of this highway goes
on through Durham and Northumber-
land, and thence TO Edinburh. nhg
other, swings around to the westward
trayersing Westmorlnnd and Cumber-
hand through Carlisle to the great Ro-