Memories and Adventures

CHAPTER I

EARLY RECOLLECTIONS

Extraction--“H. B.”--Four Remarkable Brothers--My Mother’s Family Tree--An Unrecognized Genius--My First Knockout--Thackeray--The Fenians--Early Reading--My First Story.

I was born on May 22, 1859, at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, so named because in old days a colony of French Huguenots had settled there. At the time of their coming it was a vi...