The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-02-08
OLD FULLER"
How Ito Came TO Turaish one Of
Dickens Characters

How 10 tame 10 NhfhAh WV " T
Dickens Characters
Notwithstanding all that has been
Nritton oi the source Of Dickens
characters, NO ono has told Of tho
origin Of Miss llavisham. That weird
est, most uncanny creation OF Dickens
brain has been left 20 be unravclcd by .
an odd waterfront individual, now
dead who for years was known In
this city by the sole title Of "Old
Fuller
"Old Fuller" was a. fond Of ale a.
any Engl.hman that over lived, nc. |
cortiing TO the san Francisco Call, /
and Il occasioncd no little surprise ,
when he stopped drinking and began
saving his money for n trip back TO |
"doar old Iunnon." Whom no re-
turned from his native country after q
few months this story had fastened H.
self most hxcdly In his mind. One
reason why "Old Fuller" may bo ac-
credited with the discovery OF tho
original model for Miss llaivsham Is
that he had mover heard OF Charles
Dickens, and was totally ignorant as
10 whether he was novelist or car
pontcr.
sold Fullcr's" story runs like this.
Whom he was n small boy In London
3 he know with awe n smart spruce
young liquor dealer. Temperate
/ bright and ambitious, he was on tho
/ HIGH road 10 wealth As he had been
"Old Fullcr's" ideal OF oil that was
/ great when he visited London ho took
particular care 10 hunt him mp.
Instead Of the gallant. manly young
follow he was shrunkcn, shrivolod
old frame. hair that for 20 years had
not been cut. and flesh sallow from
lack Of bathing. Tho clothes that no
wore hal never been removed In that
space and his apartments during that
timo had not been swept. In the din
ing room an extensive banquet had
boon prepared. and n crumbliug wcd-
ding cake was there which tho rats
were dcyouring
Tho cause OF the change In tho
hale, hearty Euglishman Il common
enough not 10 cause comment his
bctroihcd deserted him at tho altar,
rs had Miss linvirham's loycr twenty
five years befor, For two decades he
had lived In seclusion unmindim OF
everything but that day. Ho never
removed his wedding suit, or allowed
I his chambers 20 be changed In thc
minutest detail. So he became known
10y the lovers Of the curious through
out London aa DIRTY Bill
Unlike the jiltod Miss Havisham
, disappointmont left him but n dazcd
, listlo,s purposelcss, aged man, waltni
l calmly for the false woman 10 roturl
. 20 him. Miss Ilnvisham. on tho con
\ trary. being woman, could not Tor
got the slight TO her charms, and be
! came yindlctlvc. The vanity oil
II 'woman scornod" was too much a.
}. iootod for her TO suffer silently In soil
y tude, and 10, In Great Expectations,
" Miss Havishnm rcars the bcautli'
u Stella that. through her, she may !
ahlo 10 rejoice In that deep, oyol
wheimlng acknowledgements
She evcn sends for tho poor it'll
Pip. n blaclSsmlth's apprentice, tina
ho may love Stella hopolossly. III
devil could not shout moro gleoiull
over lost soul than did Miss Ha'
isham internally when she saw that b
- separating Pip and Stoila she ha
wrecked his life.
II was only after years OF unhapp
ness that both wandered back 10 III
m house whcro thoy FIRST mot, and II
m was able 10 say. as he did at tho clio.
= OF the book; II took her hand
10 mlno and we won't out OF the rulnc
;, place; and as the morning mlsts ha
10 risen long ago whom FIRST loft u
forge, 30 the evening mlsts were risin
now. and In all tho broad oxpanso
n. tranquil light they showed TO mo
:" saw no shadow OF another paruI
% from hor.n