Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . ompelled to surrenderCharleston? Name some of the commanders on the American British officer tried to capture Jack Davis ? Why did he not suc-ceed ? What did Jack Davis do after he left the field where he pretendedto be at work ? ROBERT MORRIS THE GREAT FIEAl^CIER. -4^\ ^^^^ is a word that I do not know the meaning of,said James, looking thoughtfully up into the face ofUncle Frank. Let me guess, said Elsie, who came into the roomat that moment. What word is it ? Financ
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . ompelled to surrenderCharleston? Name some of the commanders on the American British officer tried to capture Jack Davis ? Why did he not suc-ceed ? What did Jack Davis do after he left the field where he pretendedto be at work ? ROBERT MORRIS THE GREAT FIEAl^CIER. -4^\ ^^^^ is a word that I do not know the meaning of,said James, looking thoughtfully up into the face ofUncle Frank. Let me guess, said Elsie, who came into the roomat that moment. What word is it ? Financier, said James. Uncle Frank glanced to-\vard Elsie, as if wondering whether she could tell itsmeaning. - ^ It has something to do with money, said Elsie, and that is all I know about it Yes, said Uncle Frank, and if you will sit down I will tell you of agreat financier who helped our country at a time when we were in has been said that our first debt of gratitude for American liberty wasdue to three men—George Washington as a general, Benjamin Franklinas a statesman, and Robert Morris as a ROBERT MORRIS. 115 The first two were great in many ways, and have a wide fame in morethan one calling, while Morris is celebrated only as a money in the use of his one talent and in the giving of his one vast gift hesaved his adopted country from ruin and the labor of the other patriotsfrom ending in failure. He was an Englishman by birth, but havingbeen brought to this country by his father when he was a boy, he grewup as stanch a patriot as those of the oldest Colonial blood. Very soon hebegan to show a wonder-ful talent for a lad of fifteen he wasput in a Philadelphiacounting house, and whenhe reached the age oftwenty he became a part-ner in the firm and com-menced to amass a for-tune. By the time the war-cloud with England be-gan to gather he was avery wealthy man, fam-ous for his honesty andability. No firm in Penn-sylvania—then one of th
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