. The boyhood and youth of Joseph Hodges Choate. fortunatelydoes not affect nine-tenths of the people of the coun-try, who have really to work for their daily bread;among whom must in every generation be foundthousands of instances of parents who sacrifice thepresent to the future and forego everything else tomake sure of the education of their children. My father at last paid a fearful penalty for theconstant overwork and nervous tension of his earlieryears, for at about the age when his father and grand-father had died, his health failed entirely, and helived an invalid for more than sevente
. The boyhood and youth of Joseph Hodges Choate. fortunatelydoes not affect nine-tenths of the people of the coun-try, who have really to work for their daily bread;among whom must in every generation be foundthousands of instances of parents who sacrifice thepresent to the future and forego everything else tomake sure of the education of their children. My father at last paid a fearful penalty for theconstant overwork and nervous tension of his earlieryears, for at about the age when his father and grand-father had died, his health failed entirely, and helived an invalid for more than seventeen years. Itwas here that the supreme patience and fortitude ofmy mother, which she had derived constitutionallyfrom her father, proved such a priceless blessing inenabling her during that long period to comfort andcare for him. DOCTOR GEORGE CHOATE. Born at Ipswich, 1796; died at Cambridge, 1880, in the eighty-fourth year ofhis age—father of J. H. C. This silhouette was evidently made as he approachedmiddle age. pi< .3TA0HD aoaoao hotdoq. Ill CHILDHOOD And now I come to my own birth, which took placeat Salem on the 24th of January, 1832. I have neverhad my horoscope cast, but it must have been pro-pitious to account for the cheerful temperamentwhich has marked my whole life, always looking onthe bright side and making the best of everything asit came, which has been in itself a great fortune,worth more than many millions. The earliest written record of my appearance in theworld is contained in a letter written on the followingSunday by one of my aunts to another, in which shesays: Margaret was confined last Tuesday with thelargest boy she ever had. She continued comfortablefor three days. Since I have not heard, but pre-sume she remained so. She has put her child out tonurse.* As I was the fifth child and the fourth boy, theoldest not yet five, my size spoke well for me at thestart, and the reason that I was put away so sum-marily was that all the other children at the ti
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