title: Epitaph to 'Nickle Eck': Childhood Mischief in Wartime Birmingham
author:  Eric Yates 
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  Prologue
  
  December 1853
  
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  “We are a rather grim group today,” Oliver Leighton, the Earl of Norcroft,
  noted to no one in particular and gazed idly at the usual gathering of his
  closest friends in the lounge of their favorite club.
  
  “What’s not to be grim about?” Nigel Cavendish, son of Viscount Cavendish,
  stared at the brandy in his glass. “Life is moving at a remarkably fast clip.
  Yet another year is drawing to an end. We are all another year older and
  another step closer to the inevitable doom that lies in wait for us all.”
  
  “I hate arri