Excerpt from A World to Mend, 1920: The Journal of a Working Man<br><br>Robinson Crusoe on his island was not more alone. After all, this New England town with its homely happenings, the goings on in its little shops and about its doorways, is as much a new world to me as was Crusoe's island to Robinson Crusoe.<br><br>I shall set to work in a different way from his. There shall be no stockade to separate me from my kind! Not if I can keep pulling it down.<br><br>There is a wary friendliness in the attitude of people toward me. They give me kind greeting, but they watch me; they look upon me, I think, as a ne'er-do-well, - not without reason, not without reason.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.