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Chapters from My Autobiography

CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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But in the summer-time he was a bitterness to us.

He was our envy, for he could double back his big toe and let it fly and you could hear it snap thirty yards.

There was not another boy in the school that could approach this feat.

He had not a rival as regards a physical distinction--except in Theodore Eddy, who could work his ears like a horse.

But he was no real rival, because you couldn't hear him work his ears; so all the advantage lay with Arch Fuqua.
I am not done with Dawson's school; I will return to it in a later chapter.
[_Dictated at Hamilton, Bermuda, January 6, 1907._] "That reminds me." In conversation we are always using that phrase, and seldom or never noticing how large a significance it bears.


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