. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and toilon all the same whether the bright suncheered him or the chill air benumbed hislimbs; whether his tasks were varied, pleas-ant aiid light, or, on the contrary, he hadlearned patience, inarching beside the jiaticntox all the long hours of a long s]Ming day,the animals only alternating with othciswhich served as relays ; and had been nostranger to such discipline as picking stonesin the stubble whilst the sad heavens distil-led a drizzly rain, they condensing all theirgloom in his soul, but withheld those largea


. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and toilon all the same whether the bright suncheered him or the chill air benumbed hislimbs; whether his tasks were varied, pleas-ant aiid light, or, on the contrary, he hadlearned patience, inarching beside the jiaticntox all the long hours of a long s]Ming day,the animals only alternating with othciswhich served as relays ; and had been nostranger to such discipline as picking stonesin the stubble whilst the sad heavens distil-led a drizzly rain, they condensing all theirgloom in his soul, but withheld those largeand frequent drops wdiich would have beenthe of his release; and among theleast severe of whose lessons in acquiringhardihood had been, in gathering the fruitsof autumn, to face its frosts without mittensor .shoos ; this lad f)und nothing in tlie difli-culties of the school-room to appall him, andstorms and deep drifts rather added zest tohis dailv walks. Xo unintelligible jargon ofthe spelling book, no abstruse section in hisreader, was an overmatch for his NTERIOR VIEW OF A SCHOOL-HOfSK 1S70. 1 [ i i ■ •.,■ V: 1


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