There Is More Adventure In The Life Of The Working Man Who
Descends As A Common Solder Into The Battle Of Life, Than In That
Of The Millionaire Who Sits Apart In An Office, Like Von Moltke,
And Only Directs The Manoeuvres By Telegraph.
Give me to hear
about the career of him who is in the thick of business; to whom
one change of market means empty belly, and another a copious and
savoury meal.
This is not the philosophical, but the human side of
economics; it interests like a story; and the life all who are thus
situated partakes in a small way the charm of Robinson Crusoe; for
every step is critical and human life is presented to you naked and
verging to its lowest terms.
NEW YORK
As we drew near to New York I was at first amused, and then
somewhat staggered, by the cautious and the grisly tales that went
the round. You would have thought we were to land upon a cannibal
island. You must speak to no one in the streets, as they would not
leave you till you were rooked and beaten. You must enter a hotel
with military precautions; for the least you had to apprehend was
to awake next morning without money or baggage, or necessary
raiment, a lone forked radish in a bed; and if the worst befell,
you would instantly and mysteriously disappear from the ranks of
mankind.
I have usually found such stories correspond to the least modicum
of fact.
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