. Twelve Americans : their lives and times. PETER COOPER. The Peoples Friend. PETER COOPER. i. A MANY YEARS AGO. Upon a summer day in the year of grace 1796, in a narrowlane leading from old Qnincy Slip—at that time a businesscentre of the city of New York, which might best have beendescribed by the word genteel—five boys were engaged inscraping the dry brown mortar from between the bricks of thelow-roofed houses which stood on either side. The dust soobtained they called snuff. They collected it in broken mugsand tin cups, and with it intended to play at , while they were
. Twelve Americans : their lives and times. PETER COOPER. The Peoples Friend. PETER COOPER. i. A MANY YEARS AGO. Upon a summer day in the year of grace 1796, in a narrowlane leading from old Qnincy Slip—at that time a businesscentre of the city of New York, which might best have beendescribed by the word genteel—five boys were engaged inscraping the dry brown mortar from between the bricks of thelow-roofed houses which stood on either side. The dust soobtained they called snuff. They collected it in broken mugsand tin cups, and with it intended to play at , while they were most occupied at their work, anugly-looking black dog sprang out from one of the neighbor-ing buildings, and in a moment four of the embryo merchantshad disappeared. Only one remained, and he, the smallest andweakest—a child not yet six years of age—was so alarmedthat he could not run away. He held tightly to his cup ofsham snuff, however, and, with an instinct which was to bringhim fame and great fortune in the years to come, tur
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