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man of David Copperfield's acquaintance who used to 

 live here in a low small shop, which was darkened 

 rather than lightened by a little window, and who was 

 wont to remark, " O my lungs and liver ! what do you 

 want ? O Goroo ! Goroo ! " to any one who offered him 

 for sale an old waistcoat. 



I went, when I was at Chatham, to see whether 

 tradition could still point out the residence of this 



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Town House, lg;htham. 



peculiar man of genius whose strange exclamation has 

 added as far as I know another gem to the English lan- 

 guage, and whose remarks on his constitution are so 

 pregnant with melancholy meaning to people who live 

 sedentary lives ; but my search was unsuccessful ; the 

 home of the author of " Goroo ! Goroo ! " is no longer 

 pointed out to dyspeptic travellers ; so I set my face for 

 Canterbury, finding nothing in Chatham to interest me 

 further. 



