"I lost my own father at 12 yr.
To his pur. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this History is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false." In True History of the Kelly Gang , the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. "I lost my own father at 12 yr