rds the small hours on a Friday night.
I need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show better
than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsified by the result.
On the second branch of the question, I will only remark, that unless I ran
through that part of my inheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come
into it yet. But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of this property;
and if anybody else should be in the present enjoyment of it, he is heartily
welcome to keep it.
I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at
the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money
about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I don't
know; all I know is, that there was but one solitary bidding, and that was from
an attorney connected with the bill-broking business, who offered two pounds
in cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteed from drowning
on any hig
