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nd hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that i was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that i was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a friday night.
i need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show better than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsified by the result. on the second branch of the question, i will only remark, that unless i ran through that part of my inheritance while i was still a baby, i have not come into it yet. but i do not at all complain of having been kept out of this property; and if anybody else should be in the present enjoyment of it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.
i was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. whether sea-going people were shor
