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Excerpt from A Knight That Smote the Dragon, or the Young People's Gough There are peculiarities of your present life that will make useful material to be worked up into an honorable and effective future. What about the Sandgate boy down by the sea? He had a very sensitive temperament and a keen imagina tion, and I can see how powerful in their influ ence must have been certain conditions of his childhood. There was the sea, vast, mysterious, ever shouting on the beach its great chorus of unrest. John Gough would go to the beach and there watch this vast, fascinating, restless sea. When he was a man speaking to and swaying great audiences he could go in thought to the10 A knight that smote the dragon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.