From Canal Boy to President - Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield

Horatio Alger

Capitolo 15

the attraction for him.

Particularly its attention was attracted to a schooner, not end-clean or
attractive, but with a glance that sea-goes, as if you/he/she had been storm-launched
and it struck. Half that a dozen of sailors they were on board, but they was dirtied
and dirty, and it seemed usual drinkers--James probably is not able
you/he/she has imagined becoming as one of these, but he gave a little thought to
their aspect. He only thought as delicious you/he/she would have been to have
such afloat house.

"Is the captain on board?" the boy risked him to ask.

"He is depressed, the sailor that he turned him snarled.

"Will it come soon on?"

Answers him in the affirmative.

Then James lingered up to that the man he asked for you/he/she came on.

He was a man that brutal-looks, as ground of common ownership in aspect as some of the
I marinated that he commanded, and the boy was surprised to his carrying. Certainly
that man was not his/her ideal of a ship-captain. He thought about him as a
prince's kind, but there was no anything princely around the miserable one,
unfortunate full of forehead to him.

He still preferred his/her question.

"Does he/she want a new hand?" Asked James.

Its answer was a discharge of oaths and curses that have made James you become pale,
for him you/he/she had never sent forth an oath in his/her life, and you/he/she had never listened to
anything that disgusts as the pull to which he was forced to listen.

[The illustration: The Channel Boy]

Him judiciously concluded that nothing would have been earned continuing the
conversation with such man. He left the bridge of the schooner with a feeling
of defeat. He had never suspected that sailors spoke or they acted
as the men he saw.

Still him clung to the idea that all the sailors were not as this captain.
Perhaps the dry refusal that he has received was again in consequence of his rustic
aspect. It is probable that the captain is prejudiced against him, in the moment in which the
shop-custodians had been, although the seconds had not certainly expressed
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