Our brain, body and nerves / by Andrew Wilson.

  • Wilson, Andrew
Date:
1911
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Credit: Our brain, body and nerves / by Andrew Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OUR BRAIN, BODY, AND NERVES CHAPTER I THE BASHFUL MAN IN the days of my youth I remember read- ing a story entitled The Bashful Man.” It appeared in a certain ancient Com- monplace Book ” belonging to my worthy mother. Where this volume had come from, or how it found its way into my mother’s library, nobody could tell, but there it was, and a source of infinite amusement and in- struction hand in hand, as the saying goes, it passed to me. Among the lighter tit-bits which the editor of the book had collated was the “ Bashful Man ” story. I do not suppose that what amuses one in the days of one’s youth exercises an equal effect in the days of one’s age. The old gentleman who sits in the stalls and tells you (in a loud voice which can be heard half over the theatre) that “ Panto- mimes, sir, are not what they were in my
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