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Title: The life and letters of Robert Collyer, 1823-1912
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964
Subjects: Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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.In a letter written in 1889 to a little girl who had seen this wordtaastril in an informal account of Dr, Collyers life, and wantedto know what it meant, he explained as follows:Dear Little Sister: Taastril, when you mean a boy, as old Lady Holmes did, is alittle chap as full of mischief as he can hold, and the word whichbelongs to Yorkshire, as you say, takes on worse meanings whenyou grow up and grow worse. I was a little chap then when shesaid it, and didnt know she said it at all. But three years ago,when I was in England and had to speak in the Unitarian churchin Halifax, an old gentleman came to see me, just about my ownage. He was a little fellow, too, and was staying with the oldlady, who was his aunt. He heard her say what I told, becauseI had run after her ducks and scared them dreadfully just before;and then, I should think it was fifty-five years after, this oldgentleman turned up and told me what she said. So, if you were a boy, I should tell you not to get into mischief
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The Iron Gates, see page 7JfFrom a Snapshot taken by the author in 1913

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