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Who can honestly say that he doesn't remember the school-teacher, or the choir-singer who taught the Sunday-school class, or the lady who came to visit mother and went away engaged to a friend of father's, or the nurse who queened it over the house when mother was ill and who devoted entirely too much time to the new baby?
She sang well enough to know how badly she sang the long and toilsome and expensive training that lay between her and operatic or concert or even music-hall stage. Her voice was fine at times. Again most of the time it was unreliable. No, she could not hope to get paying employment even as a church choir-singer.
Sometimes his eyes were wide with consternation, for he had never met men so desperate as these. For example, "Strawberry" Curran named for his red hair and innumerable freckles an Irish boy with the face of a choir-singer, and eyes that must have been taken straight out of the blue vault of Heaven.
The memorials of his childhood are scanty. We know but little except that his parents were poor peasants, and that he learned the rudiments of literature and music as a choir-singer, a starting-point so common in the lives of great composers.
Thomas Chatterton, whose career among all those of English men of letters was the most eccentric, was a posthumous son of a poor man who, besides being a choir-singer, kept the Pyle Street School in the city of Bristol, England. In a small tenement-house near by he was born, November 20, 1752.
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