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CHAPTER VII

CHARLES KEENE

I FORGET in what year I made the acquaint- ance of Charles Keene, but it must have been in the late fifties, when he was sending an occasional drawing to Punch.


GRAVESEND.


I was much struck with his quaint and charac- teristic appearance, not unlike one of those cavaliers he would often draw, in the days of Langham Chambers, on the Friday evenings of the Sketching

Club. Many of these drawings revealed the more

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