Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


Dick Forrest was the son of his father. Lucky Richard, a man of
boundless energy and enterprise, though twice married and twice
widowed, had not been blessed with children. His third marriage
occurred in 1872, when he was fifty-eight, and in 1874, although he
lost the mother, a twelve-pound boy, stout-barreled and husky-lunged,
remained to be brought up by a regiment of nurses in the palace on Nob
Hill.


Young Dick was precocious. Lucky Richard was a democrat. Result: Young
Dick learned in a year from a private teacher what would have required
three years in the grammar school, and used all of the saved years in
playing in the open air. Also, result of precocity of son and
democracy of father, Young Dick was sent to grammar school for the
last year in order to learn shoulder-rubbing democracy with the sons
and daughters of workmen, tradesmen, saloon-keepers and politicians.

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