Biography & Autobiography

Cheshire Notes and Queries

Author: E. W. Bulkeley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

ISBN: 028253119X

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 146

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Excerpt from Cheshire Notes and Queries: A Quarterly Journal of Matters Past and Present Connected With the County Palatine of Chester Mr Wallace Currie, of Liverpool, published some account of his life a good many years ago, and it is impossible to read the work without feeling that Dick Aberdeen was one of the most remarkable men known to history; but so quaint a character in him self, and so word learned only. That he was fairly entitled to be called a walking dictionary, and yet so much of a fool was he that his acquaintance with the common forms of knowledge might be set down as m'l. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.