The Life And Remains of Douglas Jerrold

uglas, whose coat had been stolen from the cabin, and who, therefore, trudged, for the first time, along London streets hardly prepared for the fog or the cold, probably felt neither the sharpness of the wind nor the suffocating tendency of the fog. The scene was new to him, and all that is new is welcome to the young. Holding his sister by the hand, he walked the streets for some minutes on his own responsibility, while his father stepped aside to comfort himself with a draught of purl. The young middy might well try thus early, even for a few minutes, the effect of walking alone in London ! A house in Broad Court, Bow Street, received the family?a humble lodging enough; but the general peace, and the confiscation of the land upon which the theatre stood, had ruined them utterly. Fortune, food, had to be sought. Let me not lightly pass over this time. It is the key to the after-character of him whose life I have to set before the reader. This Broad Court, withits dingy houses; its troops of noisy, ragged boys ; its brawls and cries ; was ray father's first impression of the great city. Here, too, for the first time, he came to hob- and-nob with the stern realities of the world. As yet he had passed a youth not remarkable for its vicissitudes, and he had been two years in his Majesty's navy; in the position, and with the prospects, of a gentleman. When a home is broken up it is the position of the children that oppresses your heart. You see their neat clothe...