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Excerpt from The Perils of Pearl Street: Including a Taste of the Dangers of Wall Street Or all the various professions, occupations, of em 'ployments of life, none perhaps afford greater vicissi 'tudes' than that of the merchant. None exhibit greater 'changcs of fortune; none lead through more trials and difficulties; none, expose their votaries to severer hazards of shipwreck, both m money and reputation. Today they are oating with gentle gales on the tide of' prosperity; to -morrow they are driven by' fierce winds on the rocks of adversity. To -day all is sun shine and hope; to -morrow all is Clouds and despon dency. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.