CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



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My Relatives and Ancestors ....... i 



CHAPTER II 

 Usk: My Earliest Memories ....... 20 



CHAPTER III 

 Hertford: The Home of My Boyhood ...... 30 



CHAPTER IV 

 Hertford: My School Life 46 



CHAPTER V 



Hertford: My Home Life . . . . . . .63 



CHAPTER VI 

 London Workers, Secularists and Owenites .... 79 



CHAPTER VII 

 Bedfordshire: Surveying 105 



CHAPTER VIII 

 Bedfordshire: Turvey » 9 . 117 



CHAPTER IX 

 Bedfordshire: Silsoe and Leighton Buzzard .... 128 



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