[In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller]@TWC D-Link bookIn the Days of Poor Richard CHAPTER V 8/35
Of course they proved nothing but the treachery of Hutchinson, Rogers and Oliver.
Now I seem to be tarred by the same stick." Jack delivered sundry letters from the family of the great man who read them carefully. "It's good to hear from home," he said when he had finished.
"You've heard of the three Greenlanders, off the rocks and ice where there was not dirt enough to raise a bushel of cabbages or light enough for half the year to make a shadow, who having seen the world and its splendors said it was interesting, but that they would prefer to live at home ?" "These days America is an unhappy land," said Jack.
"We are like a wildcat in captivity--a growling, quarrelsome lot." "Well, the British use the right to govern us like a baby rattle and they find us a poor toy.
This petty island, compared with America, is but a stepping stone in a brook.
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