. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . region he was loyally loved. All over the landmen were his faithful partizans long after his public life closed, and his lastyears at the Hermitage were those of a sage and an oracle, to whom menlooked for advice and direction. A remarkable man every way, boys andgirls, was Andrew Jackson. From the time when, as a plucky boy ol thir-teen, he refused to clean the boots of the British officer, to the day when hedied yonder, at the Hermitage, an old and honored man, his story is well\yorthy of st
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . region he was loyally loved. All over the landmen were his faithful partizans long after his public life closed, and his lastyears at the Hermitage were those of a sage and an oracle, to whom menlooked for advice and direction. A remarkable man every way, boys andgirls, was Andrew Jackson. From the time when, as a plucky boy ol thir-teen, he refused to clean the boots of the British officer, to the day when hedied yonder, at the Hermitage, an old and honored man, his story is well\yorthy of study, and, whenever studied, will be found suggestive, picturesque,dramatic, American. There! I Ve talked till train-time. All aboard for Nashville, andgood-by to the Hermitage ! The>- whirled away toward Nashville. But in the intervals of Jack-son talk and delight at the Tennessee landscape Jack waxed eloquentover an account of the splendid coon hunt that the other Jack, hadtold him of, as the Northern and the Southern boy had sat together beneathone of the great shade trees at the THE LAST PORTRAIT OF ANDREW at the Hermitage in 1845. -»
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