said my aunt taking out the cotton on that side again well ma am returned mr we are � we are slowly ma am � a � ah said my aunt with such a at him that mr absolutely could not bear it it was really calculated to break his spirit he said afterwards he preferred to go and sit upon the stairs in the dark and a strong draught until he was again sent for ham who went to the national school and was a veiy at his and who may therefore be regarded as a witness reported next day that happening to peep in at the parlor door an hour after this he was instantly by miss then walking to and fro in a state of agitation and upon before he could make his escape that there were now occasional sounds of feet and voices overhead which he inferred the cotton did not from the circumstance of his evidently being clutched by the lady as a victim on whom to her agitation when the sounds were that marching him constantly up and down by the collar as if he had been taking too much she at those times shook him his hair made light of his linen stopped his ears as if she confounded them of david with lier own and otherwise and him this was in part confirmed by his aunt who saw him at half past twelve o clock soon after his release and affirmed that he was then as red as i was the mild mr could not possibly bear malice at such a time if at any time he into the parlor as soon as he was at liberty and said to my aunt in his manner well ma am i am happy to congratulate you what upon said my aunt sharply mr was fluttered again by the extreme severity of my aunt s manner so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile to her mercy on the man what s he doing cried my aunt impatiently can the speak be calm my dear ma am said mr in his accents there is no longer any occasion for uneasiness ma am be calm it has since been considered almost a miracle that my aunt didn t shake him and shake what he had to say out of him she only shook her own head at him but in a way that made him well ma am resumed mr as soon as he had courage i am happy to congratulate you all is now over ma am and well over during the five minutes or so that mr devoted to the delivery of this my aunt eyed him narrowly how is she said my aunt folding her arms with her bonnet still tied on one of them well ma am she will soon be quite comfortable i hope returned mr quite as comfortable as we can expect a young mother to be under these melancholy domestic circumstances there cannot be any objection to your seeing her presently ma am it may do her good and she how is she said my aunt sharply mr laid his head a little more on one side and looked at my aunt like an amiable bird the baby said my aunt how is she ma am returned mr i apprehended you had known it s a boy my aunt said never a word but took her bonnet by the strings in the manner of a aimed a blow at mr s head with it put it on bent walked out and never came back she vanished like a discontented fairy or like one of those supernatural beings whom it was supposed i was entitled to see and never came back any more no i lay in my basket and my mother lay in her bed but was for ever in the land of dreams and shadows the tremendous region whence i had so lately travelled and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the earthly of all such travellers and the mound above the ashes and the dust that once was he without whom i had never been the personal history and experience chapter ii i observe the first objects that assume a distinct presence before me as i look far back into the blank of my infancy are my mother with her pretty hair and youthful shape and with no shape at all and eyes so dark that they seemed to their whole neighbourhood in her face and cheeks and arms so hard and red that i wondered the birds didn t her in preference to apples i believe i can remember these two at a little distance apart to my sight by stooping down or kneeling on the floor and i going from the one to the other i have an impression on my mind which i cannot distinguish from actual remembrance of the touch of s fore finger as she used to hold it out to me and of its being by like a pocket this may be fancy though i think the memory of most of us can go farther back into such times than many of us suppose just as i believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its and accuracy indeed i think that most grown men who are remarkable in this respect may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty than to have ed it the rather as i generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness and gentleness and capacity of being pleased which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood i might have a that i am in stopping to say this but that it brings me to remark that i build these conclusions in part upon my own experience of myself and if 