. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. now that his en-e-mv was dead. 120 SOME BOYS WHO BECAME AUTHORS. WiL-LiAM CuL-LEN Bry-ant was the first greatpoet in this country. He was a small he was a baby, his head was too big forhis body. His father used to send the baby tobe dipped in a cold spring every day. The fatherthought that putting his head into cold waterwould keep it from growing. Bry-ant knew his letters before he was a yearand a half old. He began to write rhymes whenhe was a very little fellow. He wanted to be apoet. He used to pray that he might be a fat
. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. now that his en-e-mv was dead. 120 SOME BOYS WHO BECAME AUTHORS. WiL-LiAM CuL-LEN Bry-ant was the first greatpoet in this country. He was a small he was a baby, his head was too big forhis body. His father used to send the baby tobe dipped in a cold spring every day. The fatherthought that putting his head into cold waterwould keep it from growing. Bry-ant knew his letters before he was a yearand a half old. He began to write rhymes whenhe was a very little fellow. He wanted to be apoet. He used to pray that he might be a father printed some verses of his when he was,^.., only ten years old. Bry-ant wrote many fine poems. Herer^ are some lines of his about the bird wecall a bob-o-link : — Rob-ert of Lin-coln is gayly dressed,Wearing a bright black wedding coat;White are his shoulders and white his him call in his merry note :Bob-o-link, bob-o-link,Spink, spank, spink;Look, what a nice new coat is mine,Sure there was never a bird so , chee, 121 Haw-thorne was one of our greatest writers ofstories. He was a pretty boy with golden was fond of all the great poets, and he readShake-speare and Mil-ton and many other poets assoon as he was old enough to un-der-stand them. Haw-thorne grew up a very hand-some youngfellow. One day he was walking in the met an old gypsy woman. She had never seenanybody so fine-looking. Are you a man, or an angel ? she asked him. Some of Haw-thornes best books are written forgirls and boys. One of these is called The Won-der Book. Another of his books for young peopleis Tan-gle-wood Tales. Pres-cott wrote beautiful his-to-ries. When Pres-cott was a boy, a school-mate threw a crust ofbread at him. It hit him in the eye. He becamealmost blind. He had to do his writing with a machine. Thismachine was made for the use of the blind. Therewere no type-writ-ers in those days. It was hard work to write his-to-rv without ooodeyes. But Pres
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