Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 573
ativesof our orators,—I cannot mention all,—and I havecollected a few anecdotes about them, which may,perhaps, interest you at this season. Boys who do not love study, and would rather fish and swim on a Summers afternoon than poiover First Lessons in Latin, may find much constlation in the life of… … TATRICK HENRY. When the hour for study came he was usuallabsent, and was to be found in the woods with higun, or by the river with his fishing-rod. Butthe age of fifteen he was installed behind thcounter of a merchant, and a year afterward begabusiness for himself in partnership with his brothe…
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