A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago

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Keransiflan and I, sitting on our wheelbarrow, were allowed to go on eating in peace
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
With illustrations by Paul de Leslie
New York The Century Co. 1919
Copyright, 1918, 1919, by The Century Co.
Published, October, 1919
This little sheaf of childish memories has been put together from many talks, in her own tongue, with an old French friend. The names of her relatives have, by her wish, been changed to other names, taken from their Breton properties, or slightly altered while preserving the character of the Breton original.
A CHILDHOOD IN BRITTANY
I was born at Quimper in Brittany on the first of August, 1833, at four o'clock in the morning, and I have been told that I looked about me resolutely and fixed a steady gaze on the people in the room, so that the doctor said, She is not blind, at all events.