of Thomas Parr 2 1 1 



memory, however, was greatly impaired, so that he 

 scarcely recollected anything of what had happened 

 to him when he was a young man, nothing of public 

 incidents, or of the kings or nobles who had made a 

 figure, or of the wars or troubles of his earlier life, or 

 of the manners of society, or of the prices of things 

 in a word, of any of the ordinary incidents which men 

 are wont to retain in their memories. He only recol- 

 lected the events of the last few years. Nevertheless, 

 he was accustomed, even in his hundred and thirtieth 

 year, to engage lustily in every kind of agricultural 

 labour, whereby he earned his bread, and he had 

 even then the strength required to thrash the corn. 



