Word: clyburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clyburn twins' museum, whose chief exhibit was an emu's egg mistaken for a thunderbolt; Mr. Mellor, the eccentric Pre-Raphaelite painter at No. 5; the Tom-Sawyerish pranks of the Gurney children, whose fearsome governess wore a respirator over her mouth when she ventured outdoors, all lend variety to Author Mackenzie's reminiscences. The touching story of Vagabond William Cobb who lived & died in the attic of empty No. 25, and the final setting straight of his Aunt Adelaide's crippled Victorian romance are matters of a longer fibre that bind the scattered memories into...