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though the interior of the coffee room
may have been dendded of Its COM
partments which the interview be-
tween Pip and Bentley Drummle in
Great Expectations" suggests were
there on that occasion. 1t was In this
room that the Pickwickians break
Tasted and awaited the arrival of h
chaise to take them to Dingley Dell;
and it was over its blinds that Mr..
Pickwick surveyed the passer-by In
the street, and before which the We
hicle made its appearance with the
very amusing result known to all cad
ers of the book.
Has Not Been Much Altered.
The commercial room, is across the
yard. over which on n occasion Mr..
Wopsle was reciting Collins ode to
Pip In "Great Expectations" with such
dramatic effect that the commercials
objected and sent up their compli-
ments with the remark that ut wasn't
the Tumbler's Arms"
From the hall runs the staircase
upon which took place the famous
scene between Doctor Slammer and
Jingle, illustrated SO spiritedly by
Phiz. Those who remember the Incl
dent-and who does not?-can visu-
alize 1t all again as they mount the
stairs to the bedrooms above, which
the Pickwicklans occupied. They re-
main as Dickens described them, ever
In some cases to the very bedsteads
and furniture, and are still shown 10
the interested visitor.
wrinkles bedroom is inside mine
is how Mr.. Tupman put 1t. That Is to
say the one led out Of the other, and
they are numbered 10 and 10; but
which is which no one knows. Number
10, by the way, Is the room the queer
slept IN on the occasion Of her visit
eight months after the appearance o.
the first part of Pickwiclt.
, Number II is claimed as Mr.. Pick
| wick's room, which is also the on'
e Dickens occupied on one occasion, an'
e the one in Seven Poor Travellers,
2 from which the occupant assures u
that "after the cathedral bell strucI
a eight I could smell the delicious savo
e Of turkey and roast beef rising TO tn
window of my adjoining room, whicI
e looked down into the yard just wher
the lights Of she kitchen REDEEMED
f massive fragment of the castle wall.
Assembly Room Still There.
y An important feature In those day
and presumably today, was the bal
room, "the elegant and commodiou
assembly rooms to the Wingiebur
n Arms" In the "Plckwick Papers
d Dickens thus describes It: ut was
l. long room, with crimson-coyere
D, benches, and wax candles In glai
I, chandeliers. The musicians were s
i curely confined In an elevated de
D. and quadrilles were being systemai
cally got through by two or three Sc
ID of dancers. Two card tables wei
e. made up In the adjoining cardroor
e. and two pair of old ladies and a co
t. responding number of stout gent
is men were executing whist therein.
ut The room itself is unaltered. The
IS hang still the glass chandeliers, al
IS at the end is the veritable elevate
den where the folders fiddled. A
as though today 1t is not used as a dar
In ing room on account of the military al
n naval demands Of the town, there mi
r. come a time when II will revert to
ne old glory and tradition.
re But the pleasant fact remains tn
IA the Bull inn exists today and the Die
he ems tradition clings to it still. One
he stinctiyeiy goes there as the center
he Dickensian atmosphere with which {
tie old city of Rochester Is permeat'
ee' "Wright's, next house" which JiDt
at Informed his friends vas "Dear-ye
RS dear-half a crown In the bill IL y
er look at the walter" may have be
ng more famous and more pretentious
OF inn than the Bull in the old, old days
ng it was known as the Crown, dated ba
re to 1890 and associated with Henry v
sly and Hogarth-but Its fame is a thi
Of the past and doesn't count.
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