Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. 1797.?Boston and New England.?Reasons for Emigration.?Exercise on Board; Attack by Pirates.?Reception at Boston.?Hodgkinson; an Improvised Tragedy.?Boston's Resemblance to Old England.?Why New England Goes Ahead ; its Method of Progress; not Undetstood by the English.?The New England Stage ; its Driver.?
...Roads.?Mosquitoes Promote Patriotism.?The Yankees ; the Swapper; the Jobber ; the Pedler.?Anecdotes of Yankee Cuteness.?New England Seamen ; a Profitable Cargo. The causes which led me to make one of the band who were bold enough to face the perils of swamps, snakes, tomahawks, and Yankees in far-off America can be told in very few words. They were the failure of two or three managerial speculations (to one of which I had been advised by my gracious friend the late king) and the patronage of an extensive circle of fashionable acquaintances. In London I was indeed being "killed with kindness." Enjoying the fatal honor of being secretary to the famous Beefsteak Club, of which the prince regent was a member, and treasurer or secretary to half a dozen others, in that most convivial of eras when the cry of " Clubs " was raised in every street in London, though in a far different spirit from that which sounded it in the days of James I., it became a matter of official necessity that I should keep open house, and for those, too, for whom only the best was ever good enough. Better judges than my brother members of port-wine, mock-turtle, coats, guns, dogs, or horses did not exist. The consequences were inevitable. I had to retreat while I could do so with honor. The habits of an active life prompted me perhaps tosomething like restlessness on board the vessel in which I made the voyage, drawing forth a very characteristic observation from an Irish fellow-passenger. He ...
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