Fifty Years Ago, by Walter Besant 59020 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/0/2/59020 ] [Files: 59020-0.txt; 59020-h.htm] Thanks to Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) David