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

Horatio Alger

Capitolo 8

of James, it transferred him to Northeastern Ohio, and he/she bought a line of eighty
acrid on that it was standing the trunk-box built alone in that ours
history opens. His/her wife belonged again to a separate family
England--the Ballous--and possessed the strong lines of the face of his/her relative.

But the small farm of eighty acrid now it was smaller. Abram Garfield died
in debt, and his/her wife undersold fifty acrid to pay his/her creditors, while going away
thirty, what with his/her his/her own industry and that of his/her greatest child served to
maintains his/her small family.

The school-house went street that her/it Mrs. Garfield that increased of value the till now
the importance of education for its children, offered a place its neighbors
for a new school-house on his own earth, and one was built. Here winter
after winter came to teachers, some of limited qualifications, to instruct
the children of the district, and here Jimmy widened his/her escort of
book-learning from slow degrees.

The years passed, and their still lived in the humble trunk-box, you cultivate to
the age of twenty-one Thomas returned home from Michigan, where he had been
taken part in to clarify earth for a grower, while drawing seventy-five dollars
gold.

"Now, mother", he said, "you will have a framed house."

Seventy-five dollars would not pay for a framed house, but he cut lumber
he, went out the aces, and it added his/her his/her own job, and that of Jimmy,
now fourteen years old, and so the house was built, and the trunk-box
become a thing of the past. But you/he/she had been for a lot of time in their house,
and undoubtedly many happy days had passed under of its humble roof.

While the house was built, Jimmy learned a thing--that he was
skilled with utensils, and you/he/she had been all right well for becoming a carpenter. When the
joiner told him that he was born for being a carpenter, he thought with joy
what this unexpected talent would train him to help his/her mother, and
earningses anything toward the expenses of family. Then, for the next two years
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