Jemmy Stubbins, or the Nailer Boy / Illustrations of the Law of Kindness

EDITED BY ELIHU BURRITT.
1850.

EDITED BY ELIHU BURRITT.
JEMMY STUBBINS,
THE NAILER BOY.

Who took the Little Nailer of the father-land from his smithy, and sent him to School for two years I dedicate this little Book, as an offering of my affection, and as a souvenir of that loving act of benevolent sympathy.
ELIHU BURRITT.
Worcester, Mass., March 20, 1850.

Before I left America in 1846, in order to gratify the wish that had long occupied my heart, of visiting the motherland, I formed for myself a plan of procedure to which I hoped to be able rigidly to adhere. I determined that my visit to England should bring me face to face with the people; that I should converse with the artizan in his workshop, and lifting the lowly door-latches of the poor, should become intimately acquainted with their life—with their manners, and it might be, with their hopes and sorrows.