Excerpt from The Life of David Lloyd George, Vol. 2: With a Short History of the Welsh People Alike in regard to the prediction of the nurse and the delineation of the country girl, as Mr. Stead described her, we are compelled to admit that for once the curl of the hair proved a remarkably true indication of destiny. Although in the manoeuvre of circumstances the birth of the most representative Welshman of his age occurred upon English soil, it was not long before he was given the opportunity of breathing the air of the little land which, as he often declares, he loves best of all. For some time previous to Mr. Lloyd George's birth the thoughts of his parents had been turning fondly in the direction of their homeland. They found the smoke of Lancashire towns extremely trying. Neither of us could hold out long without pure air, wrote the father in regard to himself and his wife. The appointment as head of a school in Manchester, which William George had secured, mainly through the instrumentality of Mr. Morell, an Inspector of Schools, who had been favourably impressed with his work and character, was purely tem porary, and already considerations of health were such as to make it imperative that he Should exchange the scholastic profession, with its long hours in the close atmo sphere of an ill - ventilated school-house, for the open air and an outdoor life. 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.