Abstract

Abstract:

I informed you exactly when I was born; but I did not inform you how. No, that particular was reserved entirely for a chapter by itself;—besides, Sir, as you and I are in a manner perfect strangers to each other, it would not have been proper to have let you into too many circumstances relating to myself all at once.—You must have a little patience. … Or, if I should now and then to trifle upon the road,—or should sometimes put on a fool's cap with a bell to it, for a moment or two as we pass along—don't fly off,—but rather courteously give me credit for a little more wisdom than appears upon the outside—and as we go along, either laugh with me, or at me, or, in short, do anything—only keep your temper.

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