9781508730859

Paul Kelver

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781508730859

Paperback|9781508730859


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"Then ain't I a lucky little boy?" I asked. For hitherto it had been Mrs. Fursey's method to impress upon me my exceptional good fortune. That I could and did, involuntarily, retire to bed at six, while less happily placed children were deprived of their natural rest until eight or nine o'clock, had always been held up to me as an astounding piece of luck. Some little boys had not a bed at all; for the which, in my more riotous moments, I envied them. Again, that at the first sign of a cold it became my unavoidable privilege to lunch off linseed gruel and sup off brimstone and treacle-a compound named with deliberate intent to deceive the innocent, the treacle, so far as taste is concerned, being wickedly subordinated to the brimstone-was another example of Fortune's favouritism: other little boys were so astoundingly unlucky as to be left alone when they felt ill. If further proof were needed to convince that I had been signalled out by Providence as its especial protege, there remained always the circumstance that I possessed Mrs. Fursey for my nurse. The suggestion that I was not altogether the luckiest of children was a new departure.

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9781508730859

ISBN-10

1508730857

Weight

0.91 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.69 x 9.00 In

List Price

$11.99

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

306 pages

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published On

2015-03-04



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