. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . t it was to go forth to his work and to his labor until theevening, in order to earn his daily bread. Born on the 19th of March,1813, at Blantyre, the hum of the busy cotton factory was the mostfamiliar sound of his early father, a small tea-dealer, hismother a hard-working housewife,and neither with any time to edu-cate their merry lad,
. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . t it was to go forth to his work and to his labor until theevening, in order to earn his daily bread. Born on the 19th of March,1813, at Blantyre, the hum of the busy cotton factory was the mostfamiliar sound of his early father, a small tea-dealer, hismother a hard-working housewife,and neither with any time to edu-cate their merry lad, it is not sur-prising that David should havereached the age of ten withoutgiving any special sign of futuregreatness, or affording any reasonto his parents for not gaining hisliving by his hands. And so theboy was put to work in this cottonfactory as a *piecer, and began tocontribute his share to the supportof the family. A change in ones life not in-frequently brings new possibilitiesand other hopes before us. This daily life of manual labor wouldseem to have enlarged the horizon of Davids outlook, for he hashimself recorded that with a portion of his first weeks wages hepurchased a Latin grammar! This he placed upon the loom; and, as (300). DR. DAVID LIVINGSTONE 300 DAVID LIVINGSTONE, THE BELOVED MISSIONARY he passed to and fro at his work, he would catch, now a word, and nowa sentence from its open page. With learning came the appetite forlearning; and every evening, after the factory work was done, the ladwould pore over his books till midnight, and even later. Here we seethe strength and tenacity of the Scottish character, for he had to beat work in the factory by six oclock next morning, and he did notleave it before eight oclock at night. Fourteen hours of labor, withbut two intervals for meals, might well have taken all the strengthand sapped all the determination of a lad of ten; and it is, indeed, apleasant reflection that the humane legislation of later years has ren
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