From canal boy to president, or, The boyhood and manhood of James AGarfield . hings—to inspire him with a noblerambition. What would you have me do, mother ? heasked. If you go back to the canal, my son, with theseeds of this disease lurking in your system, Iiear you will be taken down again. I havethought it over. It seems to me you had bettergo to school this spring, and then, with a term inthe fall, you may be able to teach in the you teach winters, and work on the canal orlake summers, you will have employment the yearround. Nevertheless Mrs. Garfield was probably not infavor of
From canal boy to president, or, The boyhood and manhood of James AGarfield . hings—to inspire him with a noblerambition. What would you have me do, mother ? heasked. If you go back to the canal, my son, with theseeds of this disease lurking in your system, Iiear you will be taken down again. I havethought it over. It seems to me you had bettergo to school this spring, and then, with a term inthe fall, you may be able to teach in the you teach winters, and work on the canal orlake summers, you will have employment the yearround. Nevertheless Mrs. Garfield was probably not infavor of his spending his summers in the way in-dicated. She felt, however, that her son, whowas a boy like other boys, must be gradually go JAMES A. GARFIELD. weaned from the dreams that had bewitched hisfancy. Then his mother proposed a practical plan. You have been obliged to spend all jourmoney, she said, but your brother Thomas andI will be able to raise seventeen dollars for you tostart to school on, and when that is gone perhapsyou will be able to get along on your own re-. CHAPTEE YIL THE CHOICE OF A VOCATION. James Gaefields experience on the canal waaover. The position was such an humble one thatit did not seem likely to be of any service in thelarger career vrhich one day was to open beforehim. But years afterward, when as a brigadier-general of volunteers he made an expedition intoEastern Kentucky, he realized advantage fromhis four months experience on the canal. Hiscommand had run short of provisions, and a boathad been sent for supplies, but the river besidewhich the men were encamped had risen so highthat the boat dared not attempt to go up the General Garfield, calling to his aid the skillwith which he had guided the Evening Star atthe age of fifteen, took command of the craft,stood at the wheel forty-four hours out of theforty-eight, and brought the supplies to his men at a time when they weie eating their last crackers. (61) g2 BOYHOOD AND MANHOOD OF Seek
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