. The life and campaigns of U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee . d to memory the dry, hard les-sons, unwilling to give up when he came to a difficultquestion or problem. This was evidently the leadingcharacteristic of the boy. It is related of him, that oncehe seemed to be fairly bewildered with his task ; and aschoolmate, who saw his perplexity, said to him, Youcant master that. Ulysses replied: Cant! What does it mean fWhy, it means that—that you cant. TJtere/This answer was not satisfactory. The young studentthought he would find out the exact definition. He t
. The life and campaigns of U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee . d to memory the dry, hard les-sons, unwilling to give up when he came to a difficultquestion or problem. This was evidently the leadingcharacteristic of the boy. It is related of him, that oncehe seemed to be fairly bewildered with his task ; and aschoolmate, who saw his perplexity, said to him, Youcant master that. Ulysses replied: Cant! What does it mean fWhy, it means that—that you cant. TJtere/This answer was not satisfactory. The young studentthought he would find out the exact definition. He tookthe dictionary and began the search. He readily got tocan, bat there was no cartt As usual, when beyondhis own knowledge, he went to his teacher, and inquired : What is the meaning of cant I The word is not in thedictionary. The explanation of the abbreviation wassoon given. But this was not all, nor the best of it. Theaffair afforded an opportunity to impress the great truthupon the minds of the school, that perseverance in welldoing is the secret of success. Added the instructor : If. HIS PATIENT INGENUITY AS A TEAMSTER. 21 in the struggles of life any person should assert that youcant do a thing you had determined to accomplish, letyour answer he, 4 The word cant is not in the diction-ary. His father has giyen another amusing little incident:— £ I will relate another circumstance, which I havenever mentioned before, which you may use as you thinkproper. He was always regarded as extremely apt infigures. When he was about ten years old, a distin-guished phrenologist came along, and stayed several daysin the place. He was frequently asked to examine heads,blindfolded. Among others, Ulysses was placed in thechair. The phrenologist felt his head for several minutes,without saying any thing ; at length a distinguished doc-tor asked him if the boy had a capacity for phrenologist, after some further examinations, said:You need not be surprised if you see thi
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