. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . lves impressed by the presence that once had filled this breezyseaside farm. Seated upon the steps which, in the modern mansion, havereplaced the long, low vine-covered piazza, of the rambling old homesteaddestroyed by fire, the tourists fell to talking of the great man to whomthese broad acres had once belonged. In response to their inquiries UncleTom briefly told his boys and girls the story of Daniel Websters useful andbusy life. He told them of the pale and puny baby born, on a January day
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . lves impressed by the presence that once had filled this breezyseaside farm. Seated upon the steps which, in the modern mansion, havereplaced the long, low vine-covered piazza, of the rambling old homesteaddestroyed by fire, the tourists fell to talking of the great man to whomthese broad acres had once belonged. In response to their inquiries UncleTom briefly told his boys and girls the story of Daniel Websters useful andbusy life. He told them of the pale and puny baby born, on a January day in 1782,into the home of a hard-working New Hampshire farmer; of the father,Washingtons trusted sentry at West Point in the dark days of Arnolds trea-son ; of the boys early struggles for an education, tempered by his resistlesslove of fun ; of his insatiable thirst for knowledge ; of his school life at Exe-ter Academy, where he was so shy that he found it impossible to speak piecesbefore his schoolmates ; of his wonderful eyes and yet more wonderful memory ; THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS. THE WEBSTER HOUSE AT in February, 1878, and now replaced by a modern villa. of his voice, so rich and full that the teamsters and farmers would stop theboy in the road to hear him recite poetry or verses from the Bible. He toldthem how Websters father sacrificed everything to send his boy to Dart-mouth College, and was rewarded by seeing his son the prize student; howhis marvelous intellectual and oratorical powers gradually developed, untilthe boy orator of sixteen grew into the man whose matchless reply to Haynehas been called the greatest speech since Demosthenes. He told themof Websters election to Congress in 1822, and how, for twenty-eight years,he was Massachusettss foremost representative in the councils of the nation,broken only by two seasons of service as Secretary of State, under Harrison,the fourteenth President, and Fillmore, the sixteenth. He told them
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