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Adventures and Recollections, by Bill o'th'
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Title: Adventures and Recollections
Author: Bill o'th' Hoylus End
Release Date: June 9, 2009 [eBook #29085]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed by Steven Wood from the Keighley Herald (1893).
ADVENTURES and RECOLLECTIONS OF BILL O'TH HOYLUS END.
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TOLD BY HIMSELF.
CHAPTER I.
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[Bill o'th Hoylus End might be termed a local Will-o'th-Wisp. He has been everything by turns, and nothing long. Now, a lean faced lad, "a mere anatomy, a mountebank, a thread bare juggler, a needy, hollow-ey'd, sharp looking wretch;" now acting the pert, bragging youth, telling quaint stories, and up to a thousand raw tricks; now tumbling and adventuring into manhood with yet the oil and fire and force of youth too strong for reason's sober guidance; and now--well and now--finding the checks of time have begun to grapple him, he looks back upon the past and tells his curious stories o'er again. Verily, as Shakespeare declares in All's Well, "the web of his life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;" and th