Excerpt from James Woodford, Vol. 1 of 2: Carpenter and Chartist Having. Begun life first as plough-boy on a farm (farmer Marsden's at Broad field, in Essex), and then as a carpenter's apprentice, while the firm of which I am now senior partner employs between three and four hundred men in the building trade, I have seen a good many sides of life, and known many people of all sorts and characters. So I thought I might have something to tell that would interest the. Young folks, 'the children of my old shop-mates, as well ...
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Excerpt from James Woodford, Vol. 1 of 2: Carpenter and Chartist Having. Begun life first as plough-boy on a farm (farmer Marsden's at Broad field, in Essex), and then as a carpenter's apprentice, while the firm of which I am now senior partner employs between three and four hundred men in the building trade, I have seen a good many sides of life, and known many people of all sorts and characters. So I thought I might have something to tell that would interest the. Young folks, 'the children of my old shop-mates, as well as some of the old Chartists themselves, who are still living, if I could only find how to tell it. Vol. I. But I'm no great hand with my pen, and I found that the publishers to whom I took my manuscript when I got it done at last, thought my style wouldn't altogether go down with the gentlefolks yet I wanted them also to read it if they would. SO after talking over the matter with an Old friend who has been as much used to composition as I have to calculations, I settled to give him leave to polish up my rough notes and give them the right turn here and there, and make the whole thing ship-shape for the public, just as I've seen the drawing master touch up his pupil's sketches till they were a'most as good as his own. This is more particularly the case with regard to all about the women in these Recollections, for I don't under stand the sex altogether. Besides, my friend learnt many more things about their histories both from themselves and Davie Roberts in later life than I ever knew, or could have known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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