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    Jemmy Stubbins, or the Nailer Boy Illustrations of the Law of Kindness
    Jemmy Stubbins, or the Nailer Boy Illustrations of the Law of Kindness
    Jemmy Stubbins, or the Nailer Boy Illustrations of the Law of Kindness
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    Jemmy Stubbins, or the Nailer Boy Illustrations of the Law of Kindness

    By Elihu Burritt

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Title: Jemmy Stubbins, or The Nailer Boy

      Illustrations Of The Law Of Kindness

      Author: Unknown Author

      Release Date: February 9, 2004 [EBook #11007]

      Language: English

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      ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LAW OF KINDNESS,

      EDITED BY ELIHU BURRITT.

      JEMMY STUBBINS,

      OR

      THE NAILER BOY.

      1850.

      ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LAW OF KINDNESS,

      EDITED BY ELIHU BURRITT.

      JEMMY STUBBINS,

      OR

      THE NAILER BOY.

      To the Boys and Girls in America,

      Who took the Little Nailer of the father-land from his smithy, and sent him to School for two years I dedicate this little Book, as an offering of my affection, and as a souvenir of that loving act of benevolent sympathy.

      ELIHU BURRITT.

      Worcester, Mass., March 20, 1850.

      JEMMY STUBBINS, OR THE NAILER BOY.

      Before I left America in 1846, in order to gratify the wish that had long occupied my heart, of visiting the motherland, I formed for myself a plan of procedure to which I hoped to be able rigidly to adhere. I determined that my visit to England should bring me face to face with the people; that I should converse with the artizan in his workshop, and lifting the lowly door-latches of the poor, should become intimately acquainted with their life—with their manners, and it might be, with their hopes and sorrows.

      TUESDAY, JULY 21st, 1846.—After a quiet cosy breakfast, served up on a little round table for myself alone, I sat down to test the practicability of the plan I had formed at home for my peregrinations in England:—viz., to write until one, P.M., then to take my staff and travel on, eight or ten miles, to another convenient stopping-place for the night. As much depended upon the success of the experiment, I was determined to carry the point against the predictions of my friends. So at it I went, con amore. The house was as quiet as if a profound Sabbath was resting upon it, and the windows of my airy chamber looked through the foliage of grave elms down upon a green valley. I got on swimmingly; and after a frugal dinner at the little round table, I buckled on my knapsack with a feeling of self-gratulation in view of the literary part of my day's work. Having paid my bill, and given the lady a copy of my corn-meal receipts, I resumed my walk toward W----.

      I was suddenly diverted from my contemplation of this magnificent scenery, by a fall of heavy rain drops, as the prelude of an impending shower. Seeing a gate open, and hearing a familiar clicking behind the hedge, I stepped through into a little blacksmith's shop, about as large an American smoke-house for curing bacon. The first object that my eyes rested on, was a full-grown man nine years of age, and nearly three feet high, perched upon a stone of half that height, to raise his breast to the level of his father's anvil, at which he was at work, with all the vigor of his little short arms, making nails. I say, a full-grown man; for I fear he can never

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