Note 13 — Section 181. A LETTER FROM DR. HENRY DANSON TO MR. JOHN FORSTER, ON CHARLES DICKENS’S SCHOOL-LIFE. III.
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= that Dickens led (an´leiten) us one day in Drummond Street to pretend to be (sich gebärden ... als) poor boys and to ask the passers-by for (um) alms (milde Gaben).