The Widow's Sons (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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J ack honest was only eight years of age when his father died. Jack Honest cries the young reader, 'what - was the boy's name Honest?' It was Honest is a surname, though rather an uncommon one. We often wonder how people come by some of the names they have. We are not surprised to hear of Smiths, and Carpenters, and Painters, and Bakers, and Butchers, because such surnames were no doubt given to people who followed those trades. Well, Honest was most likely given to one of our hero's great-grandfathers, who was distinguished for the Virtue of Honesty. That is the only way by which we can solve the mystery of how he came by his name. Jack's father and mother were poor, but they had brought him up very creditably. They had sent him to school, and he had never played in the streets with idle or vicious children, which is the ruin of many boys. He had one or two companions of his own age, but they were such as his parents approved of.

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