Lives of the presidentsTold in words of one syllableBy Jean SRemy .. . s a brave,good wo-man, and so well did she do her hard part in lifethat she was loved by all who knew her, and was knownfar and near as Aunt Bet-ty. Andrew was a great care to her when a boy, for, full oflife and fun, he did not care for books, and was at the headin all sorts of wild sport. He was ev-er read-y for a fightwith boys who made him an-gry; the small boys looked tohim for help in any strife with boys big-ger than they ; andso strong was he, or read-y to knock a boy down for a realor a fan-cied wrong, that they so
Lives of the presidentsTold in words of one syllableBy Jean SRemy .. . s a brave,good wo-man, and so well did she do her hard part in lifethat she was loved by all who knew her, and was knownfar and near as Aunt Bet-ty. Andrew was a great care to her when a boy, for, full oflife and fun, he did not care for books, and was at the headin all sorts of wild sport. He was ev-er read-y for a fightwith boys who made him an-gry; the small boys looked tohim for help in any strife with boys big-ger than they ; andso strong was he, or read-y to knock a boy down for a realor a fan-cied wrong, that they soon found it best to give himhis own way, and let him take his place as lead-er a-mongthem ; when he was at the head all went well. He was just nine years old when the Dec-la-ra-tion ofIn-de-pend-ence was signed, and then came four years ofwar with Eng-land. In 1780 this war was car-ried into theSouth, and on May 29th a number of Brit-ish sol-diers un-derColo-nel Tarle-ton killed and wounded over 200 of the men andboys from the Wax-haw set-tle-ments. A-mong those who. ANDREW JACKSON. AISTDREW JACKSON:, 39 helped to care for the hurt and dy-ing men were Mrs. Jack-son and her hoys. An-drew was on-ly four-teen when he fellin-to the hands of the Brit-ish, and he, with o-ver one hun-dred sick and dy-ing men, was kept for days inadir-typen,with no heds, lit-tle to eat and on-ly stale wa-ter to make things worse, small-pox hroke out and An-drewwas one of those who had it. His brave moth-er was atlast a-ble to free him, and it was ow-ing to her lov-ing carethat he did not die at this aw-ful time; Af-ter he was well e-nough to be left, his moth-er, whowas ver-y sor-ry for the poor A-mer-ican sol-diers, went toCharles-ton to take care of those who were sick and wound-ed here. Just as she had be-gun her no-ble work she wasta-ken sick and died. Soon af-ter her death came the good news of peace; andnow young An-drew be-gan to pay some heed to his books,with the hope of stud-y-ing la
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