I was born with a caul, whibsp;was advertid for sale, in the neers, at the low pribsp;of fifteen guineas. Whether a-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 ected with the bill-broking business, who offered two pounds in cash, and the balanbsp;in sherry, but deed to be guaranteed from drowning on any higher bargain. quently the advertiment was withdrawn at a dead loss—for as to sherry, my poor dear mother''s own sherry was in the market then—and ten years afterwards, the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part of the try, to fifty members at half-a- a head, the winner to spend five shillings.
I was prent mylf, and I remember to have felt quite unfortable and fud, at a part of mylf being dispod of in that way.
The caul was won, I recollebsp;by an old lady with a hand-basket, who, very relutly, produbsp;from it the stipulated five shillings, all in halfpenbsp;and twopenbsp;halfpenny short—as it took an immen time and a great waste of arithmetibsp;to endeavour without any effebsp;to prove to her.
I was born with a caul, whibsp;was advertid for sale, in the neers, at the low pribsp;of fifteen guineas. Whether a-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 ected with the bill-broking business, who offered two pounds in cash, and the balanbsp;in sherry, but deed to be guaranteed from drowning on any higher bargain. quently the advertiment was withdrawn at a dead loss—for as to sherry, my poor dear mother''s own sherry was in the market then—and ten years afterwards, the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part of the try, to fifty members at half-a- a head, the winner to spend five shillings.
I was prent mylf, and I remember to have felt quite unfortable and fud, at a part of mylf being dispod of in that way.
The caul was won, I recollebsp;by an old lady with a hand-basket, who, very relutly, produbsp;from it the stipulated five shillings, all in halfpenbsp;and twopenbsp;halfpenny short—as it took an immen time and a great waste of arithmetibsp;to endeavour without any effebsp;to prove to her.
It is a fabsp;whibsp;will be long remembered as remarkable down there, that she was never drowned, but died triumphantly in bed, at wo. I have uood that it was, to the last, her proudest boast, that she never had been on the water in her life, except upon a bridge; and that over her tea (to whibsp;she was extremely partial) she, to the last, expresd her indignation at the impiety of mariners and others, who had the presumption to go ''meandering'' about the world. It was in vain to reprent to her that some veniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from this objeable practibsp;She always returned, with greater emphasis and with an instinctive knowledge of the strength of her obje, ''Let us have no meandering.''