. Plucky boys. A YOUNG ANTIQUARIAN. 277 Also to keep the beasts away from them. Some-times there were turkeys, and one item is: Foundthe other turkeys nest. She had stolen her nestin the woods, and when they set her they hadto put a lot of old iron around her to keep thefoxes away. Scattered among the entries are many aboutreading. Books were scarce in that thinly settledplace, but when the family moved away in the yearhe was fifteen, he had read every book within fivemiles of his home. His father subscribed fora paper for him while he was a child, UncleEzekieVs Youths Cabinet^ subscription pr
. Plucky boys. A YOUNG ANTIQUARIAN. 277 Also to keep the beasts away from them. Some-times there were turkeys, and one item is: Foundthe other turkeys nest. She had stolen her nestin the woods, and when they set her they hadto put a lot of old iron around her to keep thefoxes away. Scattered among the entries are many aboutreading. Books were scarce in that thinly settledplace, but when the family moved away in the yearhe was fifteen, he had read every book within fivemiles of his home. His father subscribed fora paper for him while he was a child, UncleEzekieVs Youths Cabinet^ subscription price twen-ty-five cents a year, and when he grew uphe had it, bound in neat shape, in remem-brance of my father, as his first present to is now in the State Antiquarian Society, whichthis boy lived to found, and see a flourishing andimportant institution ; and these words are in thecatalogue at its title: In handling tons of oldbooks designed for the paper mill, and in visitinginnumerable libraries, I have
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