WHERE WAS EATANSWILL?

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13485, 11 May 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHERE WAS EATANSWILL?

Sudbury, in Suffolk, has decided that it is that Eatanswill which ; Mr. ; Pickwick visited for the purpose of witnessing the tremendous contest between the Honourable Samuel Slumkey and Horatio Fizkin, Esquire. Ipswich has also laid claim to the honour; but since Mr. Pickwick mentions the county town by name, and without! seeking to disguise it, the balance of evidence, as between these two claimants, seems to favour Sudbury. Sudbury, at all events, has no doubt about the matter. It has formed an Eatanswill Club, with, as its official organ, the Eatanswill Gazette. The journal is printed op buff paper,; a lamentable "oversight which should make Mr. • Pott turn in his grave, for it was " that false and scurrilous print, the Independent," that advocated Buff principles; but it is very bright and entertaining none the less, and Mr. Pickwick; would have been mightily entertained could -he have attended the club's inaugural supper, an account of which occupies much of the first number. Every member, we read, assumes a suitable Pickwickian > character, and the objects of the club include the resolve to encourage a fraternal disposition among its members, to "enliven our dull and prosaic lives with ' Pickwickian humour," and to emulate the immortal Sam in all kinds of sport.' Who shall say that these are not the noblest of objects'? . ! (l