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Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ns that every day is a littlelife to itself, separated from that whichcomes before and after it by the specialexigencies of its seventeen, eighteen, ornineteen working hours. And directly hetakes an active part in his parents trade,he finds existence one endless gamble frommorning till night. It begins with his trudge behind an emp-ty barrow round the markets. If the pre-vious day was a bad one he will startbreakfastless. But although he may behungry, and has had only five or six hours as himself, had thirty-seven boxes of applesknocked down to him at 175. a box. Whenhe opened them in his back-yard three outof the thirty-seven contained sound fruit!The rest was rotten. It is not uncommonfor that same back-yard to smell like asewer in consequence of such calamities.And if a man, in desperation, once in awhile tries the remedy of the law, he istold that he was a fool to buy withouttesting the bulk, and that, as he has doneso, there is no redress. Having laid out his bit of capital, your
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The second-hand booksellers line the pavement in Farringdon Road.

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