. New England; a human interest geographical reader. e farm, butDaniel was the youngest and weakest of them, andwas not required to do very much. So he had plentyof time for reading, fishing, and roaming about. At a very early age he wasable to read with such fluencyand charm that the neighborswould often stop at the farm-house and ask Websters boyto read to them. His selectionswere always from the Bible, andhe read with a dramatic powerthat held his hearers prepare for college he wentto Exeter Academy. He trav-elled thither, a distance of fiftymiles, riding double behindhis fath
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. e farm, butDaniel was the youngest and weakest of them, andwas not required to do very much. So he had plentyof time for reading, fishing, and roaming about. At a very early age he wasable to read with such fluencyand charm that the neighborswould often stop at the farm-house and ask Websters boyto read to them. His selectionswere always from the Bible, andhe read with a dramatic powerthat held his hearers prepare for college he wentto Exeter Academy. He trav-elled thither, a distance of fiftymiles, riding double behindhis father in clothes that he had outgrown, and withrustic manners which caused him much mortificationat the school. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1801,and soon began to practise law in the rural a few years he moved to Portsmouth, thechief commercial place in the state. He was success-ful there as a lawyer and a politician, but at the endof ten years, when he left it to make his home inBoston, his unpaid debts amounted to thousands Daniel Webster New Hampshire Places and People 279 In a short time he was recognized as one of Bostonsleading lawyers, and was making twenty thousanddollars a year. Yet he had a spendthrift habit whichresulted in his seldom being free from an oppressiveburden of debt his life through. He had few rivals inpublic debate and oratory, and his unusual appearancemade him a marked man wherever he appeared. New Hampshire soil, except in the alluvial valleys,is better adapted to pasturage than culture, and theupland farm towns have only a few hundred inhabit-ants in each. Between 1850 and 1900 the amount ofimproved land decreased one half, showing that a verylarge amount formerly cultivated had gone back topasturage and woodland. However, the state has itsfertile sections, where many fme dairy farms are found. The three largest cities are on the Merrimack. Ofthese Concord owes its growth in part to being thestate capital, but the growth of t
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