Ballantyne, Robert Michael · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 342
strong-hearted boys who pass into a state of full manhood,do the work of men, and are looked upon as beingmen, before they have passed out of their teens.The boys manhood, which was even at that earlyperiod of his life beginning to show itself, consistednot in his looks or his gait, although both… … TOIL AND TROUBLE UNDER GROUND. THE CORNISH MIXES. 325 In the mine he commenced to labour the momenthe entered, and he never ceased, except during ashort period for kroust, until it was time toshoulder his tools, and mount to the regions of light,Aboveground, he was as ready to skylark as themost…
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