Identifier: McGillLibrary-PN970_H685_L3_1841-1193 (find matches)
Title: Lame Jemmy
Year: 1841 (1840s)
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Subjects: People with disabilities -- Juvenile literature. Lameness in literature -- Juvenile literature. Chapbooks -- Specimens. Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century McGill University Library Digitized Title McGill Library's Chapbook Collection People with disabilities Lameness in literature Chapbooks
Publisher: London : Printed for Houlston and Co., 65, Paternoster-Row
Contributing Library: McGill University Library

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oney/ How much may follow from avery small beginning! Jem wasdetermined to conquer all difficul-ties, and to succeed; and this dis-position it was which enabled himto succeed, and which ensured himfriends, as you will soon hear. Hetried and tried for many days; andmost boys would have despaired ofsuccess long before Jem despair-ed. I am determined I willmake a basket! he said: he evenwent to L • which was five LAME JEMMY. 9 miles off, that he might stand beforethe shop of a man who made bas-kets, and watch his method of set-ting to work. The next day, and the next, andthe next, he was early and late atthe edge of the stream at workwith his osiers. Everybody won-dered why he went so much to thebottom of the great meadow; butno one asked him. His motheronly said, Hes after one of hiswhims, I reckon. It is a good jobto get rid of him for a bit, for hesalways in the way. At last, without having said any-thing about it to anybody, Jem hadmade himself, by extreme patience B 10 LAME JEMMY,
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and perseverance, a tolerable basket-maker. He had six small baskets,or hampers, finished, and ready forsale, hid up in a thick elder tree bythe brook. The next day was market-day,and he wished to take his baskets LAME JEMMY. H to L to try to sell them. Very early in the morning did he arise,and with a heart beating with joy did he depart for L , with his baskets slung across his back. Itwas well for Jem that he was soonovertaken by Thomas Lister thefarmer, with his cart; for it wouldnot have been possible that he could have got to L on his crutches, with all his baskets at hisback. Why, Jemmy, art going totown, lad? (( Ay, Sir, said Jemmy. ^Why, bless thee, lad! thoultnever do that on thy wooden stumps,I reckon? Come, get up into thcart. Jem was very glad to be 12 LAME JEMMY. •Jftr^,

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