How should they be?
The system draws them from the wrong class.

They're gentlemen--noblemen, maybe--first, and they've no practical education.

There's only one way of getting it, and that's to make your own living.

How many of them have ever made tuppence?
There's where the Americans beat them so badly--they've got the sixth sense, the business sense.

No; you'll not find them responding greatly to what there is in it for trade--they'd like to well enough, but they just won't see it; and, by George! what a fine suspicion they'll have of ye! As to freights from Boston," he continued, as they all laughed, "I'm of opinion you'd better not mention them.