. Echoes from hospital and White House. A record of Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy's experience in war-times. SE. *After getting my mothers consent (forI always went to her for advice), I con-structed a Httle fiat-boat, large enough to takea barrel, with other things, down to NewOrleans. A steamer was coming down theriver. There were no wharves then, and pas-sengers had to go out in small boats to thesteamer. While passing down the river, twomen accosted me with, Who owns that *I answered, I do. * * Will you, said they, take our trunksto the steamer? Certainly, I said, and their trunks were puto
. Echoes from hospital and White House. A record of Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy's experience in war-times. SE. *After getting my mothers consent (forI always went to her for advice), I con-structed a Httle fiat-boat, large enough to takea barrel, with other things, down to NewOrleans. A steamer was coming down theriver. There were no wharves then, and pas-sengers had to go out in small boats to thesteamer. While passing down the river, twomen accosted me with, Who owns that *I answered, I do. * * Will you, said they, take our trunksto the steamer? Certainly, I said, and their trunks were puton board. They seated themselves upon them,and then each threw a silver half-dollar onthe floor of my boat. As I picked them up,I never felt so happy or so rich in my life,to think I was the owner of a dollar. One day when Tad was looking at somepicture-books that a friend had sent him, thePresident remarked, How many books thereare for children nowadays. When I was aboy, I learned my letters by the blaze of apitchpine knot, laying myself down flat, andmy now sainted mother teaching me the large I. MK. LINCOLN AND TAD. {Pn^e 85.) ALL MY SPRINGS ARE IN THEE. 85 letters from her Bible. She was all the teacherI had in those times, and often when pressedwith letters I think of her, as she instructedme how to hold the pen, telling me if Ilived to be a man I might find some writingto do. Little Tad furnished another bright spot ofcomfort for the President. He took great de-light in the childs infinite fund of boisterousmirth and mischievous pranks. After his brotherWillies death and the departure of Robertfor college, he was idolized and petted byfather and mother, by teachers and visitors,till he became the most absolute little mon-arch ever known at the White House. Hehad a very poor opinion of books, and ofteachers, if they attempted discipline, orinterfered in any way with his cherishedschemes, and in that case he was shrewdenough to get rid of them. /Let him run, said the Preside
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