Dickens was not dead, to begin with. While history attests to his riding the train that derailed midway across the Kent river just outside Staplehurst on that fateful day in 1865, the famous English author not only escaped serious injury but ministered to the wounded passengers by fetching them water, using his fashionable high-crowned hat as a canteen — that same hat enshrined later in the London haberdashery of one Mr. Garbleton, coincidentally located next door to a millinery shop owned by a Mrs. Prattle.
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