Excerpt from A History of Everyday Things in England, Vol. 2 of 2: 1500-1799 Then we h0pe our book may help boys and girls to come to a proper decision as to what job of work they will take up later on. The grown-ups have an alarming way of closing down on you, and suddenly demanding, Now then, what are you going to be and one does not know; so far too frequently the naturalist becomes a bank clerk, the tinker a tailor, and the soldier a sailor - which is all so much waste, and the cause of great unhappiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.