Posted by Magnus Smith on April 10, 2014 at 09:22:39 user Magnus.
In Reply to: Re: Captain Flint posted by Mike Jones on January 09, 2014 at 14:20:17:
A bit late I know, but I've found something to add to the discussion on Capt. Flint's age. I don't think it was quoted last time:
Never any of you start writing books. It isn’t worth it. This summer has been harder work for me than all the thirty years of knocking up and down that went before it.
So Uncle Jim was either 30, or 30 + 16 if you reckon he discounted his childhood from the above observation. Old enough to have started writing "memoirs" which suggests his wandering life was over, rather than any other sort of book.