Lives of the presidents of the United States of America, from Washington to the present time .. . in a little log cabin, ina small clearing made by cutting away the |)rimitive forest. Thefront yard was crowded with fresh stumps of giant trees, andthe little patch of ground they called the farm did not in-clude over two ticres open to the sunlight. With scarcely uten-sils sufHcient to cook the most simple food, with rough tables,rude chairs, and an open fire-place, with a floor of rough slabsover one half the small space enclosed by the cabin, with peep-lioles for windows, logs for doors, and a
Lives of the presidents of the United States of America, from Washington to the present time .. . in a little log cabin, ina small clearing made by cutting away the |)rimitive forest. Thefront yard was crowded with fresh stumps of giant trees, andthe little patch of ground they called the farm did not in-clude over two ticres open to the sunlight. With scarcely uten-sils sufHcient to cook the most simple food, with rough tables,rude chairs, and an open fire-place, with a floor of rough slabsover one half the small space enclosed by the cabin, with peep-lioles for windows, logs for doors, and a little brook in the woodsfor a well, with wild game and wheat or corn cracked in a handmortar for their meals, his parents struggled on day by day inthe close battle for bare life. James was the youngest of a family of four, of which theoldest was a boy and two were girls. To care for these childrenand at the same time clear a farm in that wilderness,required great courage, perseverance, and self-sacrifice on thepart of his parents, and necessitated thtit the baby also should 542. ^
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