Capitolo 26
appreciatingly. 'If him the haint any more sense'ns to become to accidents angry,
giv it the ter him! Because it doesn't strike?'
"But the boy didn't strike, for the man you/he/she was down and in his/her power.
Murphy expressed regret for his/her anger, and then Garfield gave him his
gives, and they became the best friends that never before. This victory of a
boy of sixteen on a man of thirty-five obliterated the notion of youth
The character of Garfield for cowardliness, and it gave him a great reputation
among his/her partners. The accident is remembered well still among the
boatmen of Ohio and Pennsylvania Canal."
The fast reconciliation of the boy to the man that had done so not provoked a
you assault on him it was characteristic of his/her nature. He was never able
you tenderly take care of the malevolence, and it was very hard job for him to be angry with
some one, however great the provocation.
Both as a boy and as a man he possessed the great strength physics, as
is inflicted by an accident said by the _Journal_ in Boston of his/her life
when he was not the humble channel-boy but a general anymore of brigade-general in
the army:
"To Pittsburg Landing there was a rush for rations a night in 1862 from
some of troops recent-arrived. One strong, excellent-looking at introduced soldier a
question for a flour barrel, _and, while picking him/it up on the shoulders, walked away with
ease_. When the wagon was loaded, these same men advanced to Colonel
Morton, commanding there the steamboats of commissioner and remarked, 'me
does he/she suppose that you ask for a receipt for these provisionings?' 'Yes', says the
Colonel, as he gave on the usual empty space; 'only takes this provision
return, and you/he/she has signed from Your imposing officer.' 'Not I sign
it?' it was the replica. 'Oh, anybody', says the amiable Colonel Morton; 'it
it asks for the signature of a cleared officer.' Then it came to the comment,
what anchor is fresh in the memory of the Colonel: 'I am a cleared
official--I am a general of brigade-general, and my name is Garfield of Ohio.'"