Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1912 — WILLING TO SHARE PENNIES [ARTICLE]

WILLING TO SHARE PENNIES

Generous Act of Btreet Waif That Gained Him a Friend In Great Novelist. Charles Dickens, the creator of many delightful, child characters, earned a million dollars during his lifetime with his pen, but often walked the streets of London in search of material for his books without a penny in bis pocket One evening while doing this' he was accosted by a small hoy who asked him for a penny. Dickens searched his pockets, but they were empty, and so he told the boy, who‘was shivering in the cold. “Poor man!” exclaimed the little fellow, “we’ll go hfinks together!” Dickens stood back in the shadow of the street to see what the Outcome would be. The lad continued to beg, and finally gained two pennies. He came dancing to Dickens with a jolly ring In his voice. “Now,” he said, “well have two hot buns apiece!” Such » generous spirit under suck trying circumstances struck Dickens so forcibly that he took the lad home with him, and there he was fed and clothed and started on the road to a better life.