Capitolo 93
winds pupils, and it taught a school in summer.
"The school-house was one of the most primitive kind, and it was standing in the
edge of dense woods and very-built in wood. One day came there on a
terrible storm of wind and it rains, it accompanied from thunder and lightning.
The woods were destroyed badly, but the wind left the old trunk-house
unharmed. Not so the lightning. An arrow struck a tree that has projected
from near on the roof, and then the same roof. Some of the pupils were
greatly alarmed, and without doubt the thought it the crack of decree or the day
of judgment. The teacher as calm and crop as possible, experimented to
you calm his/her pupils and holds them in their places. A man of what one were the
they say pupils, in to speak of the event that for a small time him
not remembered nothing, and then he looked around, and saw, as he thought,
the teacher and pupils that lie dead on the, floor. To the moment the teacher
started to stir a small. Then, one to the time, the pupils they woke up, with a
alone exception. Helps, physician and otherwise you/he/she was gotten, as soon as
possible for this one, but, although life was saved for once, reason had
forever it ran away."
Certainly this was a terrible experience for a young teacher.
It was while on a visit to his/her sister, already gotten married, in Northern
Ohio, that Eliza made the knowledge of Abram Garfield, his/her father of
the future President. In this district, while on a visit to his
relatives, to the age of seventeen James it got a school and it taught
for an only term.
Having reconsidered our footsteps to record this first experience of James'
mother, we take the opportunity to mention an accident in the life of
his/her child that was omitted in the correct place. The history was reported from
Same Garfield during his/her last illness to the Mr. Crump, assistant of edge of the
White House.
"When I was a lad", says the President, "and it started for the university
to Hiram, I had only fifteen dollars--a ticket from ten dollars in an old man,