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Augustus Carp, Esq.
By Himself
(Henry Howarth Bashford)
Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
Contents
* Chapter I
No apology for writing this book.
An imperative duty under present conditions.
Description of my parents and their personal appearances.
Description of Mon Repos, Angela Gardens.
Long anxiety prior to my birth.
Intense joy when at last this takes place.
My father's decision as to my Xtian name.
Early selection of my first godfather.
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* Chapter II
Trials of my infancy.
Varieties of indigestion.
I suffer from a local erythema.
Instance of my father's unselfishness.
Difficulty in providing a second godfather.
Unexpected solution of the problem.
The ceremony of my baptism.
A narrow escape.
Was it culpable carelessness?
My father transfers his worship to St James-the-Lesser-Still, Peckham Rye.
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* Chapter III
My parents' studies in the upbringing of children.
A successful instance of non-vaccination.
Further example of my father's consideration for others.
My mother's ill-health.
My parents engage a charwoman.
Her appearance and character.
Physical characteristics of her son.
Deplorable social result of the war.
Continued presumption of charwoman's son.
I rebuff him.
Affection for grey rabbit.
Charwoman's son's cannon and the use made of it by him.
Scenes of violence and intervention of my father.
Intervention of charwoman.
A lethargic vicar. Was he also