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His father was a blacksmith and nail-maker, to which trade he added the cultivation of the little farm on which he lived; and being poor, it was necessary for him to labor hard in all his callings in order to provide his family with a plain subsistence. Young Chauncey had little or no time given him for acquiring an education.
And boor as he was at the bottom, the son of a southern nail-maker asserting itself in this crisis which moved him so deeply, he threw back the coverlids with a brutal and contemptuous gesture, knocking down the innumerable toys they bore, and forcing the half-clad Levantine to bound to her feet with a promptitude amazing in so massive a person.
Although he was a nail-maker and a horse-shoer made axes, chisels, saws, and hammers for the artificer spades and hoes for the farmer bolts and fastenings for the lord's castle-gates, and chains for his draw-bridge it was principally because of his skill in armour-work that he was esteemed.
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