Excerpt from The Boys of Thirty-Five: A Story of a Seaport Town
I was born at Landsport, a town which boasted of having the best harbor on the Atlantic coast. I am particular to state this fact, because I have heard that seven cities disputed for the honor of being the birthplace of Homer, but I do not want any uncertainty to hang about the place of my nativity. It must be very annoying not to know where you were born. I knew a young lady once who said she was not born anywhere in particular; she was the daughter of a Methodist clergyman. I thought she always had a bewildered look, as if she were trying to select her birthplace out of the score of towns which mingled confusedly in her memory. Another young lady of my acquaintance was born on the Pacific Ocean, on board an American ship, under the English flag, and was nursed by a Chinawoman.
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