Excerpt from The Fisher Boys of Pleasant CoveSo poor at his majority that he borrowed an axe with which to earn the first dollar, and compelled to observe the most rigid economy, a practice that, ripening into a habit of life, often proves a slow poison to every generous emotion, he yet passed the ordeal unscathed, and made a liberal use of property obtained by dint of labor and at the peril of life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.