{"product_id":"2940013296527","title":"Hudson Bay","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPOINTMENT TO THE SERVICE OF THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY--THE \"PRINCE\u003cbr\u003eRUPERT\"--THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE \"H.B.C.\"--FELLOW-VOYAGERS--THREATENING\u003cbr\u003eWEATHER--A SQUALL--ISLAND OF LEWIS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReader,--I take for granted that you are tolerably well acquainted with\u003cbr\u003ethe different modes of life and travelling peculiar to European nations.\u003cbr\u003eI also presume that you know something of the inhabitants of the East;\u003cbr\u003eand, it may be, a good deal of the Americans in general.  But I\u003cbr\u003esuspect--at least I would fain hope--that you have only a vague and\u003cbr\u003eindefinite knowledge of life in those wild, uncivilised regions of the\u003cbr\u003enorthern continent of America that surround the shores of Hudson Bay.  I\u003cbr\u003ewould fain hope this, I say, that I may have the satisfaction of giving\u003cbr\u003eyou information on the subject, and of showing you that there is a body\u003cbr\u003eof civilised men who move, and breathe (pretty cool air, by the way!),\u003cbr\u003eand spend their lives in a quarter of the globe as totally different, in\u003cbr\u003emost respects, from the part you inhabit, as a beaver, roaming among the\u003cbr\u003eponds and marshes of his native home, is from that sagacious animal when\u003cbr\u003econverted into a fashionable hat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the middle of May eighteen hundred and forty-one, I was thrown\u003cbr\u003einto a state of ecstatic joy by the arrival of a letter appointing me to\u003cbr\u003ethe enviable situation of apprentice clerk in the service of the\u003cbr\u003eHonourable Hudson Bay Company.  To describe the immense extent to which\u003cbr\u003eI expanded, both mentally and bodily, upon the receipt of this letter,\u003cbr\u003eis impossible; it is sufficient to know that from that moment I fancied\u003cbr\u003emyself a complete man of business, and treated my old companions with\u003cbr\u003ethe condescending suavity of one who knows that he is talking to his\u003cbr\u003einferiors.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175874674928,"sku":"2940013296527","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013296527_p0.jpg?v=1763579343","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013296527","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}