Talks about authors and their work . hiles;Helping when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles. See in every hedge row, Marks of angels feet;Epics in each pebble. Underneath our feet. Once a 3ear like school-boys, Robin-hooding go;Leaving fops and fogies A thousand feet below. Not a life so mean or lowly, But if love is there,Both ingrowing and be strong and fair. EDWARD BGGIvESTON. THE HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER. Born December 10, ,37. The story of Egglestons early life is some-what like that of the Hoosier poet, James Whit-comb Riley, butthe time of hisboyhood was earl-ier in the ci
Talks about authors and their work . hiles;Helping when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles. See in every hedge row, Marks of angels feet;Epics in each pebble. Underneath our feet. Once a 3ear like school-boys, Robin-hooding go;Leaving fops and fogies A thousand feet below. Not a life so mean or lowly, But if love is there,Both ingrowing and be strong and fair. EDWARD BGGIvESTON. THE HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER. Born December 10, ,37. The story of Egglestons early life is some-what like that of the Hoosier poet, James Whit-comb Riley, butthe time of hisboyhood was earl-ier in the civiliza-tion of the West,and the pioneershad a harder timeof it. There wereclearings to makein the forest, logcabins to build andall sorts of out-doorwork to do. Eg-glestons boyhood,like that of W\ , was full of hard work. Their fatherswere both educated men, fond of books, and oftentalked with their boys about their reading andabout life. Edwards father, educated in Vir-ginia, was a bright j^oung lawyer, who died when (132). EDWARD EGGLESTON. TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. 133 he was only thirt}^ years old, while yet in thevery beginning of liis life work, but Edward re-membered many things he had told him. Fullof the southern spirit, he used to say: Nevertell a lie, and whip any man who says you also advised his boy to keep out of politics,for he was shocked to find that even his friendsdid untrue things to get their man elected. Edward was a weak boy physically, but hisstrong will helped him to accomplish greatthings. In those early days, the sons of pioneershad great ambition, especially to get a good edu-cation, but it was a very hard thing to do. Theschoolmasters had to teach without knowingvery much themselves, and often began whenvery young men. They boarded around in thehomes of their pupils, one week in each place,and received only a small salary. The schoolterms were very short, as the boys and girls hadto help work out-of-doors as soon as springcame. Many of th
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