. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . elve dollars a month. .Such was hiscapacity and attention to duty that in the first round trip he had learned allthere was to be learned on the tow-path. He was promptly promoted fromdriver to bowsman, and accorded the proud privilege of steering the boatinstead of steering the mules. 6So LIFE ON THE CANAL. During his first trip he fell overboard fourteen times, by actual count. Inthis way he contracted malaria, which long remained with him. He could notswim a stroke. One dark, rainy night he again fell into the canal, when no he
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . elve dollars a month. .Such was hiscapacity and attention to duty that in the first round trip he had learned allthere was to be learned on the tow-path. He was promptly promoted fromdriver to bowsman, and accorded the proud privilege of steering the boatinstead of steering the mules. 6So LIFE ON THE CANAL. During his first trip he fell overboard fourteen times, by actual count. Inthis way he contracted malaria, which long remained with him. He could notswim a stroke. One dark, rainy night he again fell into the canal, when no helpwas at hand, and was saved as by a miracle, the rope at which he caught kink-ing and holding fast while he drew himself on deck. Believing that he wasprovidentially saved for something better than steering a canal-boat, he returnedhome, resolved to obtain an education and make a man of himself. EARNING AX EDUCATION. In the winter of 1849 he attended Geauga Seminary, where he and threeother young men boarded themselves, living on about fifty cents a week each. GARFIELD ON THE TOW-PATH. Here he met a quiet, studious girl, Lucretia Rudolph, the daughter of a Alary-land farmer, who afterward became his wife. He was an intense student. Hehad an insatiable appetite for knowledge, and would make any sacrifice toobtain it. At the close of the session he worked through the vacation, andalso taught a country school, to earn money for the following winter. He wasa capital teacher. He stirred a new life and ambition in his scholars, androused in them an enthusiasm almost equal to his own. In August, 1851, Garfield entered a new school established at Hiram,Portage county, by the religious society to which he belonged, the Disciplesof Christ, or Campbellites. Here he resolved to prepare himself for lived in a room with four other pupils, and studied harder than ever. When JAMES A. GARFIELD. 081 he went to Hiram he had studied Latin only six weeks, and just begun Greek;and was, t
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