The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (Annotated)

I was born thirty-five years ago, in a public house called the Church House, in the town of N----, in the county of M----. It was kept by my grandfather, native of Cornwall, a retired sea captain, whose pride it was, drunk or sober, to inform all strangers that he had been master of his own ship, the said ship being a small schooner. In those days there was a steam packet, called the Welsh Prince, trading regularly between N---- and Bristol, and in the latter town we had relatives on...
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I was born thirty-five years ago, in a public house called the Church House, in the town of N----, in the county of M----. It was kept by my grandfather, native of Cornwall, a retired sea captain, whose pride it was, drunk or sober, to inform all strangers that he had been master of his own ship, the said ship being a small schooner. In those days there was a steam packet, called the Welsh Prince, trading regularly between N---- and Bristol, and in the latter town we had relatives on my grandmother's side.