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Description:Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of James F. O'connell, the Tattooed Man: During a Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands I was born in Dublin, on the 10th of November, 1808. The first thing I remember of childhood is, being an inmate of a school at Monaster Evean, about forty miles from Dublin; whence myself and two sisters were, one day, forwarded to Dublin, and shipped to Liverpool, consigned to the landlord of my father's boarding house. We arrived in the evening, and he carried us to the circus. I can recollect, as distinctly as though it were yesterday, my childish astonishment at what appeared to me, the magnificence of the building, the glare of light, the gorgeous tinsel ornaments, and, more than all, the superhuman feats of the ring. The drolleries of the clown filled me with a childish delight, which nothing in after years has paralleled. I thought the riders the most remarkable and enviable beings I had ever happened upon. Did I inherit this passion or not. When I was told that one of the troupe was my mother, and a person sparkling with jewels was pointed out to me as that mother, I would not have exchanged my parentage for that of a duke. I could hardly refrain from throwing myself into the ring, to assert, before the audience, my claim to a portion of their applause, as the son of the person they were so loudly cheering. Our first meeting with our parents, after a five years' separation, took place in my mother's dressing-room. She stifled our expressions of wonder at her princely vocation, by maternal caresses, more tender and repeated than gentle. I spent about a year with my parents, and then went in company with an uncle, who was also an equestrian, to London. My uncle did not keep a very strict eye upon me, and I spent my time in lounging about Deptford and Wapping.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life and Adventures of James F. O'Connell, the Tattooed Man. To get started finding The Life and Adventures of James F. O'Connell, the Tattooed Man, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of James F. O'connell, the Tattooed Man: During a Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands I was born in Dublin, on the 10th of November, 1808. The first thing I remember of childhood is, being an inmate of a school at Monaster Evean, about forty miles from Dublin; whence myself and two sisters were, one day, forwarded to Dublin, and shipped to Liverpool, consigned to the landlord of my father's boarding house. We arrived in the evening, and he carried us to the circus. I can recollect, as distinctly as though it were yesterday, my childish astonishment at what appeared to me, the magnificence of the building, the glare of light, the gorgeous tinsel ornaments, and, more than all, the superhuman feats of the ring. The drolleries of the clown filled me with a childish delight, which nothing in after years has paralleled. I thought the riders the most remarkable and enviable beings I had ever happened upon. Did I inherit this passion or not. When I was told that one of the troupe was my mother, and a person sparkling with jewels was pointed out to me as that mother, I would not have exchanged my parentage for that of a duke. I could hardly refrain from throwing myself into the ring, to assert, before the audience, my claim to a portion of their applause, as the son of the person they were so loudly cheering. Our first meeting with our parents, after a five years' separation, took place in my mother's dressing-room. She stifled our expressions of wonder at her princely vocation, by maternal caresses, more tender and repeated than gentle. I spent about a year with my parents, and then went in company with an uncle, who was also an equestrian, to London. My uncle did not keep a very strict eye upon me, and I spent my time in lounging about Deptford and Wapping.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life and Adventures of James F. O'Connell, the Tattooed Man. To get started finding The Life and Adventures of James F. O'Connell, the Tattooed Man, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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