. John Burroughs, boy and man . TEACHER AND STUDENT 185 1854 and 1863. His next school was in the village ofRosendale, on the Rondout, his wife remaining at herfathers home, he boarding at the village hotel. Hisevenings that summer were spent on the river with anotheryouth, fishing, reciting poetry, and cracking jokes,and his spare time in the berry season, in picking anddrying raspberries, preparatory to housekeeping later on. This period was one of marked mental growth. Twogreat influences, Nature and literature, were slowlyshaping and moulding his life. A belief in himself and his future he
. John Burroughs, boy and man . TEACHER AND STUDENT 185 1854 and 1863. His next school was in the village ofRosendale, on the Rondout, his wife remaining at herfathers home, he boarding at the village hotel. Hisevenings that summer were spent on the river with anotheryouth, fishing, reciting poetry, and cracking jokes,and his spare time in the berry season, in picking anddrying raspberries, preparatory to housekeeping later on. This period was one of marked mental growth. Twogreat influences, Nature and literature, were slowlyshaping and moulding his life. A belief in himself and his future held him to the taskof teaching, irksome as it was, and poorly paid, since itafforded leisure for study and writing. Though beingcontinually urged to begin a business career, he shrankfrom anything so foreign to his tastes, begging for moretime to prove that he could yet do something with his one of his letters of that period he pleads: You must not expect too much of me at first. I am very young yetand must study and grow
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