Jack Brag (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Jack Brag "I don´t mean literally," Jack, "but sportingly; - does not mind the particular scent of tallow - you understand. Let him into the tricks of the trade: you will still be queen-bee of the hive, - make him look after the drones while you watch the wax." "And while you, Johnny, lap up the honey." said the queen-bee. "Do what you like," said her son, "only marry - ´marry come up,´ as somebody says in a play." "But, John," said Mrs. Brag, "I have no desire to change my condition." "Nor I that you should," said Jack; "but I wish you would change your name. As long as ´Brag, wax and tallow-chandler,´ sticks up on the front of the house, with three dozen and four dangling dips swinging along the shop-front, like so many malefactors expiating their crimes, I live in a perpetual fever lest my numerous friends should inquire whether I am one of the firm or the family." "Johnny," said Mrs. Brag, "you are a silly fellow. What is there to be ashamed of in honest industry? If all the fine folks whom you go a-hunting with, and all the rest of it, like you, and are really glad to see you, it is for yourself alone: and if they, who must know by your name and nature that you can never be one of themselves, care a button for you, your trade, so as you do not carry it about with you, will do you no harm. What difference is it to them how you get your thorough-bred horses, your smart scarlet coat, neat tops, and white cords, so as you have them? - they won´t give you any new ones when they are gone." "It is all very well talking," said Johnny, "but I never should show my face amongst them if I once thought they guessed at my real trade. I live in a regular worry as it is. If ever a fellow asks me if I was at Melton last year, that moment I think of the shop - ´pretty mould of a horse´ tingles in my ears - ´sweet dip of the country´ sets me doubting; and, only last week, a proposal to go ´cross country and meet Lord Hurricane´s harriers at Hampton Wick nearly extinguished me." "And what now, Johnny," said Mrs. Brag, "do you think these lords take you for, if not for a tallow-chandler?" "An independent gentleman," said Jack. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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