How long I continued eating I scarcely know.

One thing is certain, that I never left the field as I entered it, being carried home in the arms of the dragoon in strong convulsions, in which I continued for several hours.
About midnight I awoke, as if from a troubled sleep, and beheld my parents bending over my couch, whilst the regimental surgeon, with a candle in his hand, stood nigh, the light feebly reflected on the whitewashed walls of the barrack-room.
Another circumstance connected with my infancy, and I have done.

I need offer no apology for relating it, as it subsequently exercised considerable influence over my pursuits.

We were, if I remember right, in the vicinity of a place called Hythe, in Kent.

One sweet evening, in the latter part of summer, our mother took her two little boys by the hand, for a wander about the fields.