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Martin Rattler was one of. Robert Michael Ballantyne searly books. Born at Edinburgh in 1825,1 he was sent to Rupert s Land as a trading-clerk inthe Hudson Bay Fur Company sservice when he left school, a boy of sixteen. There, to relieve his home-sickness, he first practised his pen in long letters home to his mother. Soon after his return to Scotland in 1848 he published a first book on Hudson s ... More

Martin Rattler was one of. Robert Michael Ballantyne searly books. Born at Edinburgh in 1825,1 he was sent to Rupert s Land as a trading-clerk inthe Hudson Bay Fur Company sservice when he left school, a boy of sixteen. There, to relieve his home-sickness, he first practised his pen in long letters home to his mother. Soon after his return to Scotland in 1848 he published a first book on Hudson s Bay. Then he passed some years in a Scottish publishers office ;and in 1855 a chance suggestion from another publisher led to his writing his first book for boys Snowflakes and Sunbeams, or The Young Fur Traders. That story showed he had found his vocation, and he poured forth its successors to the tune in all of some fourscore volumes. Martin Rattler appeared in 1858. In his Personal Reminiscences Ballantyne wrote :H ow many thousands of lads have an intense liking for the idea of a sailors life !and he pointed out there the other side of the romantic picture :the long watches in dirty unromantic weather, and the hard work of holystoning the decks, scraping down the masts and cleaning out the coal-hole. But though his books show something of this reverse side too, there is no doubt they have helped to set many boys dreaming of Wrecks, buccaneers, black flags, and desert lands On which, alone, the second Crusoe stands. A mong these persuasions to the life of adventure Martin Rattler is still one of the favourite among all his books. 1S ee Note to The Coral Island in this series.
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