Ernest Gambier Parry

"Murphy" Ernest Gambier Parry

Yes. He was born in the first week of June, in the year 1906. Quite a short while ago, as you see-that is, as we men count time-but long enough, just as a child's life is occasionally long enough, to affect the lives-ay, more, the characters-of some who claimed to be his betters on this present earth, with certainties in some dim and distant heaven that might or might not have a corner here or there for dogs. His parentage was that of a royal house in purity of strain and length of pedigree, and he first saw the light in the yard of a mill upon the river, where the old wheel had groaned for generations or dripped in silence, according as the water rose or fell, and corn came in to be ground.