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SOMETHING FOR JEMMY STUBBINS. 11 7
indeed, fond enough of seeing great cities, and
men with epaulets on their shoulders ; but he
was still more fond of seeing the inside oi society,
so to call it.
In one of his early walks somewhere
in Eng
land he came across a boy nine years old who
was doing almost the work of a man. Such
sights are, I suppose, very common in England ;
but Mr. Burritt had not at that time seen as
much of the Old World as he has since.
This boy was at work at his father's anvil,
making nails from morning to night.
He could
make a thousand nails a-day of the smallest
size. This, to be sure, may not have been as
much as his father could do ;
but it was as much
as a small boy was able to perform, and much
more than he ought to have been required to do.