| About London Contributor(s): Ritchie, James Ewing (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798707397370 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays - Education | Essays - History | Social History |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.73 lbs) 136 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: tement among the newspaper boys was very great. I heard some of them, on the last day of the trial, confess to having been too excited all that day to do anything; their admiration of the speech of Edwin James was intense. A small enthusiast near me said to another, "That ere James is the fellow to work 'em; didn't he pitch hin to the hemperor?""Yes," said a sadder and wiser boy; "yes, he's all werry well, but he'd a spoke on t'other side just as well if he'd been paid.""No; would he?""Yes, to be sure.""Well, that's wot I call swindling.""No, it ain't. They does their best. Them as pays you, you works for."Whether the explanation was satisfactory I can't say, as the small boy's master's name was called, and he vanished with "two quire" on his youthful head. But generally these small boys prefer wit to politics; they are much given to practical jokes at each other's expense, and have no mercy for individual peculiarities. Theirs is a hard life, from five in the mRead More |