WHEN DICKENS WAS A BOY
Did you know that Charles Dickens, the famous novelist, worked as a boy in a blacking factory for six shillings a week? He was “miserably unhappy,” he tells us. When he was twelve years old, Dickens was sent to schol. After that lie went into a solicitor’s office, but he loft that to become a reporter, taking down the speeches made in Parliament.
“This is a hard old world,” said Pat as he knocked off for the day. 1 “Yis,” said Mike. “Oi be thinkin’ the same thing ivory toime I put me pick in it.”
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 May 1935, Page 10
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101WHEN DICKENS WAS A BOY Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 May 1935, Page 10
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