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Updated: July 2, 2025

A canal boy could become a President. Any boy who took employment with any firm could, by thrift, energy, and sobriety, learn the business and rise from position to position until he was taken in as a junior partner. After that the senior partnership was only a matter of time. Very often so ran the myth the boy, by reason of his steadiness and application, married his employ's daughter.

Jack London - John Barleycorn