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.

We call him Figs because his father is a GrocerFigs & Rudge, Thames St., City.

They are in an ugly mood; they probably have more bootleg whiskey with them than food; I did not tell you, but I looked in on their camp and saw one of them, a dope fiend named Benny Rudge, shoot one of his own friends dead, suspecting him of having stolen a side of bacon.

At his side Benny Rudge fidgeted and blinked.

" "Gratton's got no gun with him," cackled Benny Rudge.

* CHARLES DICKENS Barnaby Rudge Charles Dickens, son of a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, was born at Landport on February 7, 1812.

"Barnaby Rudge," the fifth of Dickens's novels, appeared serially in "Master Humphrey's Clock" during 1841.

In 1849 "Barnaby Rudge" was published in book form.

Written primarily to express the author's abhorrence of capital punishment, from the use he made of the Gordon Riots of 1780, "Barnaby Rudge," like "A Tale of Two Cities," may be considered an historical work.

" They covered the wounded man with Varden's greatcoat, and carried him to Mrs. Rudge's house hard by.

Hugh and Barnaby and old Rudge had taken refuge in a rough out-house in the outskirts of London, where they were wont to rest, when Dennis stood before them; he had not been seen since the storming of Newgate.

They were to die at noon, and in the crowd without it was said they could tell the hangman, when he came out, by his being the shorter one, and that the man who was to suffer with him was named Hugh; and that it was Barnaby Rudge who would be hanged in Bloomsbury Square.

The result of a searching inquiry was that, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a free pardon to Barnaby Rudge was made out and signed, and Gabriel Varden had the grateful task of bringing him home in triumph with an enthusiastic mob.

For instance, he writes There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge.

BARNABY RUDGE, a half-witted whose companion is a raven.

(See RUDGE.) BARNACLE, brother of old Nicholas Cockney, and guardian of Priscilla Tomboy of the West Indies.

DENNIS the hangman, one of the ringleaders of the "No Popery Riots;" the other two were Hugh, servant of the Maypole inn, and the half-witted Barnaby Rudge.

C. Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1841).

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DAUGHERTY, JAMES. Barnaby Rudge.

Barnaby Rudge; a tale of the riots of '80.

George Macy Companies, Inc. (PCW); 16Oct69; R470586. MACY (GEORGE) COMPANIES, INC. Barnaby Rudge.

DAUGHERTY, JAMES. Barnaby Rudge.

Barnaby Rudge; a tale of the riots of '80.

BARNABY RUDGE, one of Dickens' novels, published in 1841.