CHAPTER XIX

Commencement of my life’s afternoon. My 264 father’s eight sisters-in-law return to Wales. Astounding attitude of my mother. Physical effect thereof on myself. I move to Stoke Newington. Further parochial activities. Simeon Whey obtains a living. I move to Hornsey and become a Churchwarden. Complete decline of Ezekiel Stool. Birth of my son. A happy augury

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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MYSELF AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE _Frontispiece_

(_From a photograph now in the possession of the Reverend Simeon Whey._)

MY DEAR FATHER IN HIS PRIME 28

(_Taken from a group of sidesmen of St. James-the-Less._)

FROM A PORTRAIT OF THE AUNT WHO STOOD 40 WITH MY MOTHER’S MOTHER AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS

MR. CHRYSOSTOM LORTON 108

ALEXANDER CARKEEK AND HIS TWO SONS 130

EZEKIEL STOOL 168

(_Drawn from a portrait once in the possession of the_ A.D.S.U.)

THE REV. SIMEON WHEY 192

(_From a photograph in my possession._)

THE TWIN SISTERS OF EZEKIEL STOOL 256

(_The right-hand one became my wife._)