. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. of knowledge, instead of giving instruction in grammarand arithmetic. And particularly he envied Jason, theathletic youth, who resolved to seek his fortune in theworld without asking the teachers advice or tellinghim anything about it. Such a failure as Rileys in arithmetic has seldombeen recorded. I could not, said he, tell twice tenfrom twice eternity. History was his bete noir. Heknew nothing of Columbus, or the glorious countryexpressly discovered for the purpose of industry andlearning, as his teache
. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. of knowledge, instead of giving instruction in grammarand arithmetic. And particularly he envied Jason, theathletic youth, who resolved to seek his fortune in theworld without asking the teachers advice or tellinghim anything about it. Such a failure as Rileys in arithmetic has seldombeen recorded. I could not, said he, tell twice tenfrom twice eternity. History was his bete noir. Heknew nothing of Columbus, or the glorious countryexpressly discovered for the purpose of industry andlearning, as his teacher would have him believe. Hedid not have, as he wrote in one of his prose sketches,the apt way of skimming down the placid rills oflearning. But he did possess the extraordinaryknack of acquiring such information as was not taughtat school, and, as he was told, had no place in the busyhive of knowledge. He knew all about Captain Kidd— J A 4 /&*Mv 4ricct $**& A*c^ y^^jiX <*~r i ^ ^ **** The Poets Handwriting the Year of His Vision ! His Handwriting Twenty-thbee Yeabs Lateb.
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