The Young Moose-Hunters

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Excerpt from The Young Moose-Hunters: A Backwood's StoryAmerica, meaning the United States, is a great country for self made men, so called. Our people rather dote on that sort of man. It is a nice topic to fire the juvenile mind with, - this being a self made man. When the average poor boy comes to try for it, he is apt to find it a stern task.To fight his way against everything, even hunger itself, is doubt less an indication of pluck, yet is it anything save a pleasant pastime for the luckless youth who gives the indication.That little upstairs room, with its one window, bare ¿oor, and rusty stove, its two crippled chairs and starved little cupboard, that rarely could Show more than half a dry loaf of Wheat bread and a pint jug of molasses, its unpainted, uncovered table, on which lay half-a dozen second-hand text-books of Virgil, Caesar, Xenophon, all intimate ly associated with a certain void within the waistband, well, it is not quite an enjoyable recollection, though a very vivid one. Those were times that tried not only our souls, but our stomachs as well. And with youngsters of fifteen or thereabouts, the stomach pleads strongly.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.