Adam Matthews

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    When Adam delved and Eve span,
    Who was then the gentleman?
    John Ball (hanged 1381)

    I was supposed to retire when I was seventy-two years old, but I was seventy-seven when I retired. On my seventy-sixth birthday a lady had triplets. It was quite a birthday present.
    —Josephine Riley Matthews (b. 1897)