The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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to stay for 3 years. I felt somewhat put on my mettle to be left in charge of the business for a week while they went to the old Lodge to keep the honeymoon. Old snuffy Mother Davies was house-keeper and old Philip Bailey the grandfather of the author of “Festus” came to advise, and take a little supervision occasionally; a very pleasant cheery jocular old gentlemen he was. A man came in abruptly one evening, he asked “are you the brother of the young man who has married Mrs Major.” “Yes.” “I’m her cousin, tell him I’m sorry for him, poor fellow. I lived with her in her first husband’s time. He must get a good ash plant, and once a week lit her have it if he means to keep

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