Looking for Luck, the Life Story of a Rolling Stone (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Looking for Luck, the Life Story of a Rolling StoneI suppose if I'd had an ounce of sense in my head I'd have weighed that sort of proposition a little carefully before burning my boats, but my extreme enthusiasm blinded my common sense and I'd never heard of blarney. For several days I could think of nothing else but reaching the goldfields. My chief difficulty was how. I knew it was useless asking my father's permission. Although he rarely alluded to it I think he had knocked about a good deal himself as a young man and now that he had achieved some sort of security the very idea of his son abandoning it unnecessarily used to make him angry. More than once he told me: All you've got to do, son, is to sit back and watch this town grow. All the spade work's been done. N ow you can gather the harvest. Get those ideas out of your head and leave the pioneering to those who've got nothing to lose.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.