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Echoes of Mr. Barkis' famed remark* were heard last week, when citizens of Yarmouth expressed themselves as not only willing but anxious to name one of their streets "Barkis Road" by way of tribute to famed author-journalist Charles Dickens...
Eventually "Barkis Road," "Peggotty Road," "Copperfield Avenue" and "Dickens Avenue" were approved by the Council, to replace the names of four of Yarmouth's principal streets...
...especially violent dispute centered about Character Steerforth, a friend of David Copperfield. Councilor Jack Salmon demanded to know "who he was before we name a street after him." Answered Councilor Hill, a dignified and venerable resident of Yarmouth, "Mr. Salmon, you will find out all about Steerforth by reading David Copperfield! . . . Although Dickens knew his Yarmouth and immortalized it, you don't seem to know your Dickens...
...immortal novelist who once aroused censure and reproach in the United States for drawing American character with too great exactitude in "Martin Chuzzlewit" has met a similar fate in England. In the Yarmouth town council, it was proposed to name certain highways, Copperfield Avenue, Steerforth Avenue. Peggoty Road, and Barkis Road. One of the more stalwart of the councillors, Jack Salmon, fish salesman by trade, condemned Barkis as a "silly old pup" and a "drunken rascal with a red nose". He spared Steerforth his denunciation only because he did not know the gentleman's reputation...
...TIME Yarmouth...