
JUNE NINTH
- George Stephenson born 1781.
- John Howard Payne born 1791.
- Richard D. Blackmore born 1825.
- Charles Dickens died 1870.
—Charles Dickens.
'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which, sought through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.
Home! home! sweet, sweet home!
There's no place like home!





