Paul Perril, the Merchant´s Son
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Excerpt from Paul Perril, the Merchant´s Son: Or the Adventures of a New-England Boy Launched Upon Life The Yankee predeliction for wandering. Some account of Paul´s parentage. A few passages touching ´gentility.´ Paul and his brother. New England is the great population nursery of the American continent. The young shoots which it produces annually, are reared with an eye to transplanting, rather than for domestic growth. Of every seven juvenile plants five are sent off to be planted in the South and West - to thrive in Oregon or bear fruit in California. For a family of children born in the land of Pilgrims to remain there as men and women within sight of the smoke of the paternal home, is an event scarcely known. ´Where shall I emigrate - where shall I make my fortune?´ is the first enquiry of the Yankee boy as he begins to discover a beard upon his lip. Such was the question our hero, Paul Perril, addressed to himself one sunshiny morning when he had scarcely reached his seventeenth year. This was, it is true, rather an advanced age for a spirited New England youth to put this inquiry for the first time, inasmuch as they are expected to begin to earn their living by the time they enter their ´teens.´ Indeed, two-thirds of the boys do earn their bread and butter at-this early age. Cast an eye through the length and breadth of the land of ´steady habits,´ and for every man in business, you will find a smart little fellow in his employ, smart, shrewd, and with all his eye-teeth cut. Boys in Yankeedom ate men before they have yet gone through the period of youth. They leap from their mother´s lap right into the bustle and activity of money-getting. They cast aside their tops and balls to grasp the sterner tools of the laborer, mechanic and farmer. Yankee boys are easily weaned from home. It is well, it is so, or there would be much unhappiness undergone, and many, many bitter tears shed by the courageous little exiles from the domestic hearth. 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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