A Wellington reader has pointed out, in Dickens' popular work “ Dombey and Bob,” a couple of discrepancies which have not, to our knowledge, been previously referred to by critics. The instances are (1) “ ■ Clara ahoy,’ said the Captain, putting a hand to each side of his mouth." (2) " Squeezing both the Captain’s hands with uncommon fervour as he said it the old man (Sol Gills) turned to Florence.” The Captain, as is well known, had only one hand, the other being "to replaced by a hook. A Napier paper thua begins a leading article Emperor William, a conceited and contemptible cub, who is enabled by the survival of a superstition to boast that he rnlM the great Garman Empire, has been pleased to express his belief that pease to easwadt* Europe for many yeatti
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 279, 28 March 1889, Page 2
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134Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 279, 28 March 1889, Page 2
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