Category: Biographies
Went with L---- out catapult shooting. While walking down the main road saw a Goldfinch, but very indistinctly--it might not have been one. Had some wonderful shots at a tree creeper in the hedge about a foot away from me. While near a stream, L---- spotted what he thought to...
Am at last beginning to get more content with the work at the Museum, so that I muse on Bernard Shaw's saying, "Get what you like or you'll grow to like what you get." I have a...
4. Part II. is dedicated to:The beauty of it is that the Editor adds a serious footnote, dissociating himself, and a Scarabee to whom I shewed the Work, read it with a clouded brow and then said: "I think...
1. PART I--THE JOURNAL BEGINS WHEN ITS AUTHOR IS A LITTLE OVER 13 YEARSWent with L---- out catapult shooting. While walking down the main road saw a Goldfinch, but very indistinctly--it might not have been one. Had some wonderful shots at a tree cr...
7. PART III: MARRIAGEZeppelin raid and influenza, 222 Living in the country, 223, 227, 228 Reads his doctor's certificate after visit to recruiting-office, 225, 238 Self-disgust, 223, 224, 225, 247,...
3. PART III--MARRIAGEI can't make out what has come over folk recently: the wit, wisdom and irony on the old tombstones have given place to maudlin sentiment and pious Bible references. Then on the...
6. PART II: IN LONDONDisillusionment, 59, 61, 93, 94, 132, 178, 185 Life in a boarding-house, 63, 78, 79, 94, 99, 107 Ambition, 71, 73, 109 An affair in a taxicab, 75 Self-disgust, 77 In love, 78, 9...
5. PART I: AT HOMERambles and bathes, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 20, 37, 45, 46, 48, 49 Natural History and Zoology, 9, 12, 13, 20, 29 Leaves school, 10 Newspaper reporting, 17, 19 Ambition, 8, 10, 13, 26,...