. St. Nicholas [serial]. n 1360and died in March, 1423. There are many old storiesabout Dick and his cat, but,with Dickens, I believe in thecat. It is to be seen on the roofof the house where Whitting-ton lived, it is mentioned onhis grave, and, beyond this,there is conclusive evidence inthe stone bas-relief now inGuildhall. This stone carvingwas discovered, a few yearsago, in the cellar of a house inGloucester, the very house inwhich the Whittingtons livedas far back as 1460. The bas-relief represents a boy of nineyears, with the hood of the pe-riod around his shoulders, thehair cut square ac
. St. Nicholas [serial]. n 1360and died in March, 1423. There are many old storiesabout Dick and his cat, but,with Dickens, I believe in thecat. It is to be seen on the roofof the house where Whitting-ton lived, it is mentioned onhis grave, and, beyond this,there is conclusive evidence inthe stone bas-relief now inGuildhall. This stone carvingwas discovered, a few yearsago, in the cellar of a house inGloucester, the very house inwhich the Whittingtons livedas far back as 1460. The bas-relief represents a boy of nineyears, with the hood of the pe-riod around his shoulders, thehair cut square across the fore-head and long over the ears,the feet bare, and the lad is car-rying a cat. The tablet evident-ly formed a portion of a largerwork, a tablet over either a door or a chimney-piece. By competent judges it has been pro-nounced to be the work of an artist of the fif-teenth century, and seems to show that theWhittington family was not only acquaintedwith, but was proud of, the story of the cat. (To be concluded.).
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