The Life of James a Garfield, President of the United States: With Extracts From His Speeches (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Kirke, Edmund

9780484190732: The Life of James a Garfield, President of the United States: With Extracts From His Speeches (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0484190733 ISBN 13: 9780484190732

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from The Life of James a Garfield, President of the United States: With Extracts From His Speeches

Seeing his fondness for learning, his mother determined to do all she could to gratify it; and thinking him still too young to trudge a mile and a half to school, she offered the neighbors a corner of her little farm if they would build upon it a school-house. It would be as far away from the homes of most of them as the other was, but they haught her spirit, and in the course of the autumn built a new school-house. It was of logs, only twenty feet square, and had a pun cheon floor, a slab roof, and log-benches without backs or a soft spot to, sit ou; but it was to turn out men and women for the nation.

Before the winter set in the school-master came - an awkward, slab sided young man, rough as the bark and green as the leaves of the pine-trees which grew about his home in New Hampshire; but, like the pine-trees, he had a wonderful deal of sap in him - a head crammed with knowledge, and a heart full of good feeling. He was to board round among the neighbors, and at fi1st was quartered at the little cottage, to eat the widow' s corn-b1ead, and sleep in the loft with J ames and Thomas. He took at once a fancy to J ames, and, as the little fellow trotted along by his side on the mst day of school, he put his hand upon his head, and said to him.

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