Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ing, echolike and familiar? Restraints of society? When the very stones of the streets shrieked at him the name of that town—Independence! Now we know the words that haunted us: "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness!" Never was echo clearer. The emigrants were there in exercise of those unavoidable rights. Not happiness, or the overtaking of happiness; the pursuit of happiness —the insane hope of a better condition of life. That which perplexed Parkman looked upon, disapproving, was the settlement of America—the greatest upbuilding of recorded time; and the prime motive of that great migration was the motive of all migrations— the search for food and land. They went west for food. What they did there was to work; if you require a monument—take a good look! Here is the record of a few late camp fires of the Great Trek. chapter{Section 4"Why-Why had been principally beaten about the face, and his injuries, therefore, were slight." —The Romance of the First Radical. "A fine face, marred by an expression of unscrupulous integrity." " —Credit Lost. THE lady listened with fluttering attention. The lady was sweet and twenty, and the narrator—myself—was spurred to greater effort. Suddenly a thought struck her. It was a severe blow. She sat up straight, she stiffened her lips to primness, her fine eyes darkened with suspicion, her voice crisped to stern inquiry. "I suppose, when Sunday came, you kept right on working?" It was an acid supposition. Her dear little nose squinched to express some strong emotion —loving-kindness, perhaps; her dear little upper lip curled ominous. She looked as though she might bite. "Kept right on working is right. We had to keep on working," I explained. "We couldn't very well work six days gathering chapter{Section 5cat...