This may not have been the best dentist to have as my first dentist - of course I was a teenager at the time, but none the less.

As a kid you always do something your not supposed to do. Sometimes you get away with it  
sometimes you don't and sometimes you never forget even if you do get away with it.

My two older teenage brothers decide to make a boat during their summer holidays. I should mention that my two older brothers, when left to their own devices, which was often,  behaved  much like a pair of Siamese cats. 
 

  a lesson in defensive  lying      12kb 

This short story describes my grade two experience of being beaten with a strap, by the school principle, as a lesson, for not going to church on Sunday. 

episode (2): 
the leg fell off the table          11kb 

My two older teenage brothers,  (the Siamese cats),  decide that they would like to know if a fully set,  four legged dinner table, would still  stand up, if one of the legs were removed. 

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My grandfather and his brother decide in their late teens to join her Majesty Queen Victoria's, British  Colonial Auxiliary Force.  They assumed that  their Ireland born father, would shower them with much deserved pride. 

My grandfather has to deal with his old country experiences and his children's new country differences.

the irish wind of 1839                 9kb 

Thanks to my older brother,  John O'Connor's notes,  I was able to weave this story of my paternal great grandmother's close encounter with death.  So close, as to cause me  wonder and speculation,  with regard to the luck of my existance.