My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 15
... brother , Herbert , was first placed with a trunk maker in Regent Street , but not liking this business , after- wards came to Neath and entered the pattern - shops of the Neath Ironworks . After his brother John went to California he ...
... brother , Herbert , was first placed with a trunk maker in Regent Street , but not liking this business , after- wards came to Neath and entered the pattern - shops of the Neath Ironworks . After his brother John went to California he ...
Page 16
... brother John reached seventy - seven , and my sister Fanny eighty - one . My brother William owed his death to a railway journey by night in winter , from London to South Wales in the miserable accommodation then afforded to third ...
... brother John reached seventy - seven , and my sister Fanny eighty - one . My brother William owed his death to a railway journey by night in winter , from London to South Wales in the miserable accommodation then afforded to third ...
Page 19
... brother and sisters , or sitting in my mother's lap or on a footstool listening to stories , of which some fairy - tales , especially " Jack the Giant - Killer , " " Little Red Riding Hood , " and ' Jack and the Beanstalk , " seem to ...
... brother and sisters , or sitting in my mother's lap or on a footstool listening to stories , of which some fairy - tales , especially " Jack the Giant - Killer , " " Little Red Riding Hood , " and ' Jack and the Beanstalk , " seem to ...
Page 22
... brother John was four and a half years older , and I expect was the leader in most of our games and explorations . My two sisters were five and seven years older than John , so that they would have been about thirteen and fifteen ...
... brother John was four and a half years older , and I expect was the leader in most of our games and explorations . My two sisters were five and seven years older than John , so that they would have been about thirteen and fifteen ...
Page 23
... brother and I had wished to do so . Another vivid memory of these early years consists of occasional visits to Usk Castle . Some friends of our family lived in the house to which the ruins of the castle were attached , and we children ...
... brother and I had wished to do so . Another vivid memory of these early years consists of occasional visits to Usk Castle . Some friends of our family lived in the house to which the ruins of the castle were attached , and we children ...
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