. The true story of George Washington : called the father of his country. CHILDREN OF WASHINGTON S TIME. several large farms, or plantations, as they were then called, in the colonyof Virginia, along the Potomac River. He never had muchmoney, for money was not plentiful in those old colonydays. Planters and farmers were rich in land and in thecrops they raised, but these crops were not always sold formoney; they were exchanged for the things that wereneeded on the farm or in the home. The Virginia farmers, A BOY OF VIRGINIA, AND HOW HE GREW UP. 17 as I have told you, raised more tobacco than a
. The true story of George Washington : called the father of his country. CHILDREN OF WASHINGTON S TIME. several large farms, or plantations, as they were then called, in the colonyof Virginia, along the Potomac River. He never had muchmoney, for money was not plentiful in those old colonydays. Planters and farmers were rich in land and in thecrops they raised, but these crops were not always sold formoney; they were exchanged for the things that wereneeded on the farm or in the home. The Virginia farmers, A BOY OF VIRGINIA, AND HOW HE GREW UP. 17 as I have told you, raised more tobacco than anythingelse; for a great many folks in Europe had learned tosmoke tobacco since the time when Sir Walter Raleigh (whointroduced into England the practice of smoking tobacco) wasdrenched from head to foot by his terrified servant who, see-ing the tobacco smoke, thought his master was on fire. So-the rich Virginia farmlands were planted with tobacco, andthe ships that came from England took away the tobacco,. WASHINGTONS BOYHOOD HOME. and left in exchange things to eat and things to wear, andthings to make home comfortable. And a very comfortable home the son of this Virginiaplanter had. It was not a great nor a grand house, as werea few of the houses of the very richest Virginians; it wasnot, perhaps, what the boys and girls of to-day, with to-daysidea of comfort, would call comfortable. It was a story anda half house, with a low sloping roof, with great chimneysand fireplaces at either end, and with half a dozen roomy rooms, one of which had its fireplace bordered with the A BOY OF VIRGINIA, AND HOW HE GREW UP. funny Dutch tiles and was called the best room. Therewere no carpets on the floors, no gas, nor oil, nor coal, norstoves for light and heat; the furniture was neither elabo-rate nor plenty ; the books were but few, and tne householdgames and toys made for girls and boys to-day were thenunknown. No bicycles, no postage stampalbums, no tennis nor croquet, nor baseball?—w
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