The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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in a room, finding she had overshot the mark. I saw the little game. I thought her cousin’s word was not very wide of the mark. William had a bit of the old Puritan about him, but he was far too good a man to be tied to, and tormented by such an old shrew. My brother William like many a poor hen-pecked husband got used to it, and though he could never like it, managed to pull through better than one could expect. When I had been there about a year, the premises and business were enlarged and increased. I was errand boy, porter, warehouse man, waiter etc., pretty hard worked from 17 to 19. I was a stout, sturdy fellow, carrying heavy weights; had only a wheel-barrow for heavy goods. The roads and streets in 1823 to about 1830 were badly paved

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