Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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lives of the catassociated with his name. A poor boy, orphaned, hetrudged to London behind amarket-wagon, having beentold the streets were pavedwith gold. There he slept onthe pavement, at last was takenin as a service-boy by a richmerchant, slept in a garretwhich was overrun with rats,earned a penny blacking boots,with which he bought a cat,which shared with him his mis-erable quarters, but not thefierce scoldings of the cook.The merchant was about tosend a trading-ship to sea, whenhe called his servants and toldthem that if they possessed any-thing they might share with himthe benefits of barter. PoorDick had nothing but his cat;they scoffed at him, but thedaughter of the merchant in-sisted that he send it. Withtears, the lonely little fellow said good-by to Tab.The captain of the ship found the King of theMoroccos overrun with rats and mice, and soldthe cat for priceless treasure. The goodly mer-chant gave it all to the boy, who afterwardmarried his daughter Alice. The two together
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DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. left their stamp upon the great city. Whitting-ton was three times Lord Mayor of London.He was the first to introduce drinking-fountainsinto London, the first to establish and build apublic library. He founded a college. Herebuilt churches, and advanced large sums ofmoney to Henry V. Whittington was born in 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

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