Mr. P. Toots
J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd")
Watercolour
1898{?]
The editor or Kyd himself has not provided a cover page with a relevant quotation, such as all the other illustrations have. Toots, the Head Boy in Doctor Blimber's Academy (loosely based on Wellington house Academy, which Dickens himself attended), is a comic character in Dombey and Son. Although more than a little odd in his habit of falling in love with nursemaids when out walking with the pupils, Toots is a good companion to the fragile, little Paul Dombey. — Dombey and Son.
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