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

Horatio Alger

Capitolo 3


XXVI.--THE CHANNEL-BOY BECOMES A MEMBER OF THE CONGRESS

XXVII.--THE COURSE OF GARFIELD IN CONGRESS

XXVIII.--THE MAN FOR THE TIME

XXIX.--GARFIELD COME A LAWYER

XXX.--THE RESEARCHER IN THE POLITICS

XXXI.--FRIENDS' TRIBUTES

XXXII.--FROM CHANNEL-BOY Á. PRESIDENTE

XXXIII.--THE NEW ADMINISTRATION

XXXIV.--THE TRAGIC END

XXXV.--MR. THE RESPECT OF DEPEW OF GARFIELD

XXXVI.--THE LESSONS OF HIS/HER LIFE




IL

THE CHILDHOOD IS THE VIRILITY

OF

JAMES A. GARFIELD.




CHAPTER ME.

THE FIRST PAIR OF SHOES.


From a small and it rudely-built trunk-box a four year-old strong boy
issued, and it sincerely looked through the compensation at the path that has conducted
through the surrounding forest. Its naked feet pressed the soft grass,
what shed as a carpet in front of the door.

"What is you/he/she looking for, Jimmy?" asked to his/her mother from among the
humble residence.

"I am looking for Thomas", said Jimmy.

"It is still hardly time for him. He won't be later through job up to
sunset."

"Then I desire the sun to put rapid Jimmy", says.

"That is anything that we cannot hasten my child. God makes the sun to rise
and to rise up his/her due season."

This idea for the understanding of Jimmy was proposed also probably for him,
it was but four years adult and the more youth of a family of four
children. His/her father was dead first two years, while leaving a young widow,
and four children, him the more old man but nine, in narrow aching. A long and
severe winter placed in front of the small family, and they had but the small corn
put in the barn to bring I cross them up to the next crop. But the young one
widow was a brave woman and a mother lover.

"God will provide for us", she said, but you/he/she sometimes seemed a mystery
as that provision was to come. More than once, when corn was low in
the can, she went in bed without his/her his/her own supper that her four children,
who were blessed with cordial appetites, it would be satisfied. But when
twelve months had passed, and the new crop entered, the fields that
his/her greater boy and she had planted product enough to put them over
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