Adventures of Young Jack Harkaway and His Boy Tinker (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Adventures of Young Jack Harkaway and His Boy Tinker "What, Jack, leave us and go on your travels alone?" "Yes, sir." "Sir, " said his father, in surprise, "you are on your dignity about something I should think, Jack." "No, no, dad, " said young Jack, quickly, "it is not that. All I want is to cut out a path for myself - to be self-reliant like my father before me." Old Jack pursed up his brows and looked gloomy. "But your father before you needed to be self-reliant, he was poor in starting life, Jack. You have no need to be any thing of the kind, seeing that I have all that is wanted to make you comfortable - aye, and precious comfortable too." "I know that, dad, " replied his son, "but I don't like the idea of feeling dependent even upon you." "I can't quarrel with the feeling, Jack, " said his father, but I must object to your restlessness, no matter what the cause of it - " "Restlessness!" "Yes, that's it." "It is not restlessness, dad, that prompts me to be off on my own fortunes. The desire is only prompted by the hope of doing for myself." "The fact is, " said old Jack, shaking his head, "that you are suffering, my boy, from the old Harkaway disease." "What's that?" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.