Captain Cuttle's bright idea Novel by Charles John Huffam Dickens
Cuttle, Captain a Seafaring friend of Sol Gills, whose shop he cares for when Sol goes in search of his lost nephew, Walter Gay. Quote: When found, make a note of. Dickens describes Captain Cuttle as "a gentleman in a wide suit of blue, with a hook instead of a hand attached to his right wrist; very bushy black eyebrows; and a thick stick in his left hand, covered all over (like his nose) with knobs. He wore a loose black silk handkerchief round his neck, and such a very large coarse shirt collar, that it looked like a small sail in Dombey and Son. Bernard W. Matz's original introduction for Copping's scene from Dombey and Son Of Dombey and Son Dickens said after its completion that he considered that if any of his books "are read years hence, 'Dombey' will be remembered as among the best of them." That might have been said of most of them. But there is no doubt Dickens was proud of "Dombey," and we know how little Paul appealed to him, and how affected he was when writing his death scene. However, he had a still more favourite book in David Copperfield. His aim in writing Dombey and Son was to show the humbling of pride and the awakening of parental love, and the book is a great contribution to the subject. It is as packed full of real characters as any of his books, whilst the story has more dramatic interest than most. Captain Cuttle is a veritable triumph of creative power, and although the scene we give is pleasant and characteristic, it hardly does justice to the man who made immortal the phrase "when found, make a note of it"
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