Olla Podrida
By Frederick Marryat
9 Oct, 2019
Brief Extract: The tradesmen’s bills are swelled by my disease into the budget and the checks upon my banker into supplies. Even my children laugh and wonder at the answers which they receive. Yesterday one brought me her book of animals, and point
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Brief Extract: The tradesmen’s bills are swelled by my disease into the budget and the checks upon my banker into supplies. Even my children laugh and wonder at the answers which they receive. Yesterday one brought me her book of animals, and pointing to a boa constrictor, asked its name, and I told her it was an O’Connell. I am told that I mentioned the names of half the members of the Upper and Lower House, and at the time really believed that I was calling the beasts by their right names. Such are the effects of my unfortunate disease. Less