3 Walter Scott tells us, in his fragment of autobiography. Speaking of the strange remedies applied to his lameness, that he remembered lying in
the parlor of his grandfather's farmhouse on the floor, swathed up in a sheepskin warm from the body of the sheep, being then not three years old.
David Copperfield's memory goes beyond this. He represents himself seeing so far back into the blank of his infancy, as to discern therein his
mother and her servant, dwarfed to his sight by stooping down or kneeling on the floor, and himself going unsteadily from the one to the other. He
admits this may be fancy, though he believes the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and
accuracy, and thinks that the recollection of most of us can go farther back into such times than many of us suppose. But what he adds is certainly
not fancy. "If it should appear from anything I may set down in this narrative that I was a child of close observation, or that as a man I have a strong
memory of my childhood, I undoubtedly lay claim to both of these characteristics. 10Applicable as it might be to David Copperfield this was
unaffectedly true of Charles Dickens.
Choose the best revision, if one is needed.
A)
NO CHANGE
B)
on the floor in the parlor of his grandfather's farmhouse
C)
in the parlor, of his grandfather's farmhouse on the floor
D)
in the parlor of his grandfather's farmhouse, on the floor