Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 11: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; January-June 1897
The whole thing seems to show that they none of them know much about, or at all events are not thoroughly certain about the matter. Let Ous suppose a man born in Ireland, or, better still, instead of supposing I will give an actual case, that of a valiant soldier who served his country faithfully for twenty years - John Leahy, taken from his own account in his Art of Swimming, ' 1875. He is a Corker, having been born in the county of Cork, where at the age of seventeen he enlisted in our army (our neatly avoids English! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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