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Recollections Of An Irish Judge - Press, Bar And Parliament (1915) (Paperback)
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Recollections Of An Irish Judge - Press, Bar And Parliament (1915) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER II EARLY RECOLLECTIONS Narrow escapes?Efforts of memory?"
Wages, not punishment "? Keeping the peace?Innocent arson?Father
Delany?" A New Departure in Catholic Education "?A question of
honour?" Our Bill "? " Barred out." THERE is a strong temptation to
set down here something of the thoughts, feelings, incidents and
enjoyment of my young days. Looking back as one looks from a
distance on a valley on which the sunshine is smiling, those days
of one's youth are so vivid, so real, that one is apt to forget how
little interest they have for outsiders. Besides, I am pledged to
brevity. I am writing not as an actor, but as a spectator; I am
telling of things seen and heard, and I will compress the days of
my youth into as few pages as possible. When I was just two years
old, so I have been told, I was industriously engaged in humble
imitation of the gardener sowing seed on the broad flags in front
of our house in Tuam, in confident hope of an abundant harvest. I
went over the verge, tumbled down a flight of stone steps and
gashed my temple on a sharp angle at the bottom. The whole incident
is as clear in my mind as if it happened yesterday. I vividly
remember my mother sitting with me in her lap, holding the wound
together while the servant scoured the town for my father. Then
darkness closed round me, and I remember nothing else for years. A
deep dinge over my eyebrow' remains as a memento of the incident.
Just such another accident may be mentioned, though a little out of
its order. I wonder how many reckless boys have had a similar
experience ! It chanced when I wasabout ten years old my father one
day brought home a revolver, a queer, stumpy, old-fashioned thing
quite unlike the modern weapon. There were six barrels all the same
length revolving on a pivot, and...
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