. The true story of George Washington : called the father of his country. tizen on my own farm, was ex-pressed both in his talk and in his letters. To that farm, after the wedding festivities were over,he took his wife, the fair young widow Custis, and here, withtheir mother, came Washingtons step-children, John — thesix-year-old boy whom they called Jacky-—and the littlefour-year-old girl Martha, known to the homestead as Patty. It was a fine home for Jacky and Patty Custis. MountVernon, as many of you know, is a beautiful place to-day; inWashingtons time it was a splendid Virginia plantation
. The true story of George Washington : called the father of his country. tizen on my own farm, was ex-pressed both in his talk and in his letters. To that farm, after the wedding festivities were over,he took his wife, the fair young widow Custis, and here, withtheir mother, came Washingtons step-children, John — thesix-year-old boy whom they called Jacky-—and the littlefour-year-old girl Martha, known to the homestead as Patty. It was a fine home for Jacky and Patty Custis. MountVernon, as many of you know, is a beautiful place to-day; inWashingtons time it was a splendid Virginia plantation,with broad acres of rolling farm-land, and a lawn slopingdown to the sparkling Potomac, with fruit and flowers inabundance and a house that afforded plenty of play roomfor children. ^ ^ • Colonel Washington, the childrens step-father, was thepja tall and noble-looking gentleman of twenty-seven ; theirmother, whom all the world now reveres as Martha Wash-,ington, was a small and stately lady,, who looked afterher son and daughter very closely, as was the way with. JOHN PARKE CUSTIS AND MARTHA PARKE CUSTIS — JACKY AND PATTY. {From an original painting.) WASHINGTONS BOYS AND GIRLS. i8i parents in those days. The little boy and girl studied theirlessons and did their tasks dutifully and well. Matilda, orPatty, was, we are told, a demure little lady who wore herhair done up and adorned with pompons, and wasbrought up by her mother to work on samplers andstudy housekeeping, and be diligent and quiet and , being a boy, had a little more freedom; but he, too,had to study hard ; his step-father, who as we know was oneof the best surveyors in America, taught him engineeringand military tactics and instilled into the boy that deep loveof out-of-door life that was a part of his own nature. Washington was always inclined to be more easy withhis step-children than was their mother; and, before his realduty of nation-making called him from his home, he waswith them much
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