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situation on some plantation for a time, and judge for 

 himself how he likes the life and what he thinks of the 

 prospects. Such situations are not difficult to obtain by 

 those who go the right way to work, and a young man 

 who takes one will very soon find out, or be told, whether 

 he is likely to succeed. But I repeat with all the emphasis 

 I can command that a young man who goes to Jamaica 

 without experience and without training, possibly with 

 little aptitude for hard work of any kind, and with none 

 at all for hard work in the tropics, and expects to turn his 

 capital into a fortune in a few years, had much better 

 stay at home." 



