Excerpt from Learn to Say No: Or the City Apprentice Such was the advice my brother gave me. It was on the night previous to my leaving home. I had been reared near a quiet country village, had enjoyed the sweets and the privileges of a Christian home, under the faithful and tender care of loving parents, with brothers and sisters who made my childhood days more pleasant as they passed, and the remembrance of them now more precious. 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.