. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. Y. A POOR POLITICIAN. A SYMPATHETIC JUDGE. DUTY FIRST, INTEREST AFTER-WARD. HOW HE ACCEPTED DEFEAT. EQUAL TO EITHER FORTUNE. A TRUE PHILOSOPHER. Always accommodating, Grover helped his uncle out ofmany a close place when help was scarce or true American adaptability he could do anything hecould see any one else do, and once when chaffed by about his livinof on a farm and beinoj unable to cradlewheat he said, Thats so, a man ought to know how to cutwheat, so Ill just go out and
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. Y. A POOR POLITICIAN. A SYMPATHETIC JUDGE. DUTY FIRST, INTEREST AFTER-WARD. HOW HE ACCEPTED DEFEAT. EQUAL TO EITHER FORTUNE. A TRUE PHILOSOPHER. Always accommodating, Grover helped his uncle out ofmany a close place when help was scarce or true American adaptability he could do anything hecould see any one else do, and once when chaffed by about his livinof on a farm and beinoj unable to cradlewheat he said, Thats so, a man ought to know how to cutwheat, so Ill just go out and learn.* **Pshaw, boy ! said Mr. Allan jokingly, **it would takeyou years to learn how to cradle well enough to do a dayswork. *Well see about that, said Grover coolly, and he startedfor the wheat field where the men were at work reaping andbinding the golden grain. At first he was rather awkwardin handling the cradle, but after a few instructions from anexperienced reaper he swung along blithely, and withoutdifficulty kept in the line with the other harvesters. Mr. GROVER CLEVELAND. 59. IN THE HARVEST FIEL?: 60 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF Allan, who had gone to the field expecting to witness Gro-vers failure, afterward told a neighbor that the boy wouldattempt anything and that he always succeeded. The first morning that the youth appeared at the lawoffice of Rogers, Brown & Rogers, he asked the seniormember of the firm how he should begin the study of old gentleman told him to sit down at a table, andthen going to the library he took out a volume of Black-stone and slapping it down before the boy with a loud banghe said : *Thats the lawyers law and gospel. Thats where theyall begin. Thats the essence of all law, and its like theBible, you cant read it too long, too often, nor too atten-tively. With this gruff advice as to how to master the laws mys-teries, he marched off and Grover was soon deeply im-mersed in the writer, who could make even the dry and te-dious rules
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