-that is, if I read that right and am not just inviting myself.

When O'Connor was five she taught a chicken to walk backwards, and it was this that led to her first experience of being a celebrity. The Pathé News people filmed "Little Mary O'Connor" with her trained chicken, and showed the film around the country. She said, "That was the most exciting thing that ever happened to me. It's all been downhill from there."



To her pen-pal:
"I go from bad to worse in your imagination- first a fascist and now Cupid. I can defend myself on the first score but the Lord only knows what line I'd take against this other. I'd rather be the Minotaur or the Gorgon or that three-headed dog at the river styx or ANYBODY. Just reconsider."