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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
One of my earliest and best books, the dedication reads "To Alun. From Auntie Norah, Christmas 1961". Norah Golding was a customer of my father's, she managed the William Lewis Shop on the corner of Queen Street and Charles Street in Cardiff. William Lewis Printers, Booksellers and Stationers were an old Cardiff firm. Their factory was in Penarth Road, I remember. (They used to be typewriter experts also.)
The story is known to all, the message perhaps even more valid with passing years. 'It is never too late to change, to make amends, to become a better person.' When I used to read it as a child Ronald Searle's superb illustrations used to scare me, could people really look like that? how can there be such poverty? such unfairness? The appearance of edentulous faces soon became a familiar site once I had reached my student days.
Norah G also gave me a copy of another favourite from slightly later days, Rudyard Kipling's great tales of teenage public school boys, "Stalky and Co".
The story is known to all, the message perhaps even more valid with passing years. 'It is never too late to change, to make amends, to become a better person.' When I used to read it as a child Ronald Searle's superb illustrations used to scare me, could people really look like that? how can there be such poverty? such unfairness? The appearance of edentulous faces soon became a familiar site once I had reached my student days.
Norah G also gave me a copy of another favourite from slightly later days, Rudyard Kipling's great tales of teenage public school boys, "Stalky and Co".