BAMBOO BUCKAROO

I am born. . . . I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.--Believe me, good folks, this is not so inconsiderable a thing as many of you may think it;-- . . . If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I d