Capitolo 3
Telford passed the most greater part of his/her childhood in the poverty of calm honourable of the
what rural poor man doesn't complain him. Hardly he was great enough to gather sheep him,
results on the slant in the summer as some other worn-out country
laddie, and in winter that he has minded cows, receiving for wages only his/her food
and money enough to cover the cost of his/her scarce attire. He went
school, also; as, any now knows: but him _did_ goes, to the parish
school of Westerkirk, and there him learnt with a wish, in winter
months, although he had to spend the summer on the most profitable assignment of
working in the fields. To a you consolidate serious boy likes young Tam Telford,
however, ago the whole difference in the world that he should have
is to school, any matter as simply. Those twenty-six letters of the
alphabet, the learnt, is once fairly the key, after everything to the whole book-
learning in the whole world. Without them, the shepherd-boy would remain,
an ignorant person, unprogressives conduct all of its long life, also his
native and undeniable energy that is used on on nothing best that a
wattleds fence in with a hurdle or a roof covered of straw; with them, the run is first opened
him what it finally conducted Tam Telford to the Bridge of I Led and Westminster
Abbey.
When Tam had gradually eaten his/her way through enough thin gruel
flour cream and of milk (with very small milk, we fear,) to do him/it in a cordial young fellow
of fifteen, it started to be tall time for him to choose him an end
profession in the life, as he was able. And here already the born one
tastes of the boy started to appear: for him it didn't have liking for the
the work of simple shepherd; he felt a natural desire for a chisel and a
hammer--the engineer was already there in the wheat--and he was
started making accordingly apprenticeship to a stonemason in the small city of Lochmaben,
over you redden him hills to toward east. But his/her master it was a hard man; him
it had the small mercy for the raw young fellow; and after having tried to handle with him for