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Updated: May 12, 2025
A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor's door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt. Young Dobbin had no peace after that.
He had heard of the distemper having broken out among his neighbour's sheep, and wished to know what was to be done to prevent its spreading. On learning of the accident which had happened to Rudge, he went in to see him. "I have studied as a surgeon, and may, I hope, be of use to you," he said.
We shook hands as directed, and were sent back to the playground; and neither did Rudge nor any one else again make any reflection on my family. How he had found out that my father had been engaged in the Irish rebellion I could not discover. He after this, for some time, fought very shy of me, though from that day forth he gave up bullying, and we became very good friends.
But there was an intervening period, early in his life, when there was almost too much work for his imagination, and yet not quite enough work for his housekeeping. To this period Barnaby Rudge belongs. And it is a curious tribute to the quite curious greatness of Dickens that in this period of youthful strain we do not feel the strain but feel only the youth.
He says of Dickens, after reading "Barnaby Rudge": "He is always prodigal and ample, but what a set of vagabonds he contrives to introduce us to!" "Barnaby Rudge" is certainly the most bohemian and esoteric of Dickens's novels. He liked much better Miss Muloch's "John Halifax," a popular book in its time, but not read very much since. He calls Charles Reade a clever and amusing writer.
For the benefit of my younger readers, and perhaps, so feeble is human memory, for the benefit of their elders too, let me state that Rudge and Humber were rival makers of bicycles, that Hilary Maltby was the author of 'Ariel in Mayfair, and Stephen Braxton of 'A Faun on the Cotswolds. 'Which do you think is REALLY the best "Ariel" or "A Faun"? Ladies were always asking one that question.
He replied that it was my duty to forgive insult, and asked what Tom Rudge had said to me. I told him. "I thought that you were an orphan," he observed, "the son of Mr Concannan's sister, and that your father was dead." "Mr Concannan is my uncle, sir," I replied; "but my father is alive and well, I hope, in South America."
In the criticism of 'Barnaby Rudge, and again in the explanation of the Maelzel chess-player, Poe used for himself the same faculty of divination, the same power of seizing the one clue needful, however tangled amid other threads, which he had bestowed upon Legrand and Dupin.
"Wiltshire, sir," answered Joseph. "You understand sheep?" said Mr Ramsay. "Been accustomed to them all my life," said Joseph. "How many do you think you could shear in a day?" asked the master. "May be three score," answered Rudge, looking with an eye somewhat of contempt at the small breed of sheep he saw before him.
Of course Rudge was very glad to get his assistance, though he knew that he could not depend long on him, and that any moment he might set off again by himself. He could help with the sheep, but cattle have such a dislike to black men that they will not let one come near them.
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