. The true story of George Washington : called the father of his country. a retreat at Monmouth; when he detected men mak-ing money out of the woes and worries of the Revolution ;or when St. Clair, in the face of his repeated charge to be-ware of a surprise in fighting the Ohio Indians, fell into thetrap, and was desperately defeated, this quiet, calm and coolman could swear and rage; but he detested an oath, and oneof the first things he did upon taking command of the armyat Cambridge was to issue an order requesting his sol-diers not to swear. He has been knownto cuff and strikehis soldiers
. The true story of George Washington : called the father of his country. a retreat at Monmouth; when he detected men mak-ing money out of the woes and worries of the Revolution ;or when St. Clair, in the face of his repeated charge to be-ware of a surprise in fighting the Ohio Indians, fell into thetrap, and was desperately defeated, this quiet, calm and coolman could swear and rage; but he detested an oath, and oneof the first things he did upon taking command of the armyat Cambridge was to issue an order requesting his sol-diers not to swear. He has been knownto cuff and strikehis soldiers whenthey were cowardly,quarrelsome andstupid ; but no com-mander of armiesever looked morecarefully after themen under his lead, was more beloved by them or was followed more suppose we could find faults and flaws in everyonescharacter, if we set out to hunt for them; but that is notwhat we are sent into the world to do. We want to find outthe good points of men and women, of boys and girls, and ifthe faults that we see or read of are so many or so big that. THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON AT MOUNT VERNON. 194 THE STORY WITHOUT AN END. we cannot help seeing them, then we are to use these veryfaults as warnings for our conduct, to escape them, or steerclear of them if we wish to be good men and women — evenif we may not be great ones. Now, what made Washington great ? We admit that hehad faults; but who remembers them now, or tries to pickthem out? If you recall the life of Columbus, the Admiral,which opened this series of Childrens Lives of Great Men,you will recollect that he had very great and detestablefaults, and was capable of doing things that really good menlike Washington and Lincoln would not have done for allthe wealth of the Indies, nor all the gold of Carthay. Andyet Columbus is to-day one of the worlds great men ; hisfaults are forgotten ; only what he achieved is remembered. Of Washington, we set down this: as a boy he was hon-est, upright, truthful, obedient
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