My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.


Recollections of my childhood and youth (ed. 1906)


My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were....

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were....

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were....

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were....