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In later years, when the conflict with his father began, he always remembered these untroubled days with regrets: the Saturday football matches; the Sunday Whippet-racing and terrier-fighting, together with certain afternoon walks along the tow-path of the canal, where the bodies of puppies that were Old enough to be taxed floated into beds Of loose-strife and willow-weed, and jack-bannocks hung swimming in shoals through the yellow water. In all these memories John Fellows was a benignant figure; and this one would hardly have guessed, for John Fellows was not prepossessing. He was a short man with a low-set head and an immense shoulder-girdle. His eyes were small and lost in deep orbits, so that when his face was ingrained with carbon the white of the sclerotics was intensified in a way that made them seem gru g and malignant. Walking home in his pit clo es, bow-legged and with the dazed and hampered gait which is the mark Of men who labour underground, he always looked as if he had been drinking. Generally he had been drinking, but at his soberest he was an ugly customer, and the blue enamelled tin pot in which he carried his tea struck one as a dangerous weapon.
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Francis was born in 1884. He read medicine at Birmingham University before entering general practice at Brixham in 1907. He died in 1954 in South Africa.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1332608256
- ISBN 13 9781332608256
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages412
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