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

Horatio Alger

Capitolo 41

rented first the term. Him understood whether to be in a condition to study
well he has to feed well his/her body, and he was for a more generous
system of diet. Besides, the in demand job to cook was so a lot of duration
had been taking for his/her times of study.

He felt that a widow--Mrs. Stiles--mother of the present sheriff of
County of Ashtabula, was prepared to receive boarders, and, accordingly, him
it appealed to her to verify if she had received him.

You already knew anything of him, for her it learned that he had gotten
the reputation of a consolidates and orderly student, and you/he/she was prepared to
favors his/her question.

The next question was a youth main point Garfield.

"How much is it waited for me to pay?"

He waited for the anxiety the answer, for although he had
twenty-five dollars in pocket, the term was a long and education
it would be also paid.

"A dollar and six cents almost exact" they will be, Mrs. said Stiles, "for
axle, washing and lodging."

"That will be satisfactory James", says, with a sigh of the relief for him
seen his/her way of clarifying pay this sum for once, at least and for the
whole term if he could get again job to his/her old work.

A dollar and six cents! It was rather an odd sum, and we should consider
it today as very low for some kind of axle in some village, however
dark or humble. But in those days it was not so unusual, and
provisions were so a lot of it lowers that the widow probably not lost nothing from
his/her boarder, although she could not do a lot certainly.

James didn't have any money to save for another purpose, although there was need
enough of him. He had badly need of some new suits. He had anybody
underclothes neither overcoat, and but one out of suit, of convenient Kentucky
jean. Without doubt he was submitted to mortification on account of his
slender provisioning to dress. In every case he had put once in
embarrassing circumstances.

Toward the closing of the term as her Mrs. Stiles says, its trowserses became
exaggeratedly you become bald to the knees and one unlucky day, when he was
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