The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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into the parlour, and talked kindly and tenderly to me. She touched the better side of my nature, we knelt down together, she poured forth in earnest words a prayer to God for my forgiveness, we wept together embraced, and became reconciled. The Father in Heaven, the mother on earth forgave the disobedient Son. He became and was ever afterwards one of her most devoted children, never intentionally causing her sorrow. This occurred when I was about 14, often a critical period to a boy of strong passions. After this, a general change took place in me behaviour and character; like many boys I was not fond of work, and like an unbroken colt jibbed a bit. I found it difficult to buckle to, but gradually got to like farm work, to use a country phrase “Took to the collar” and grew to be fond of farming, cattle and grazing, and during the last two

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