Things to be remembered in daily life : with personal experiences and recollections / by John Timbs.
- John Timbs
- Date:
- 1863
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Things to be remembered in daily life : with personal experiences and recollections / by John Timbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![those engaged in the game : on the delinquent being turned •out, it was generally wished that he should supply his place; but nothing could induce him to do so: when beset by a party of five or six, he would fight with the utmost courage and determination until he freed himself from their grasp ; he would then retire again to his tree, and look about him, as observant as before. Such owus the love of fair ijlay in the boy who became the great Duke of Wellington. An incident in the life of Parry, the intrepid Arctic navi- gator, may also be related here. He left Bath, accompanied by an old and faithful servant of the family, with whom he travelled to Plymouth, and who did not leave him till he saw him finally settled in the Ville de Paris man-of-war. To Parry all was new. He had never before beheld the sea, and his experience of naval matters had been confined to the small C]*aft on the river Avon. He seemed almost struck dumb with astonishment at his first sight of the ocean and of a line-of-battle ship; but, after awhile recovering himself, he began eagerly to examine every thing around him, and to ask numberless questions of all who were inclined to listen. While so engaged, he saw one of the sailors descend- ing tlie rigging from aloft; and in a moment, before the astonished servant knew what Parry was about, he sprang forward, and, with his wonted agility, clambered up to the mast-head, from which giddy elevation he waved his cap in triumph to those whom he had left below. When he re- gained the deck, the sailors, who had witnessed the feat, gathered round him and commended his spirit, telling him he was a fine fellow, and a true sailor every inch of him. We can well imagine with what gratification the various members of his family would receive the account of this and €very other incident connected with his first entry on his new career, and how eagerly they would hail his conduct on this occasion as a happy omen of future success.* * Memoirs of Sir E. W. Tarry.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21081244_0261.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
