Show START IN LIFE in the summer of that year 1830 he exercised the rl ot of majority and started out to eliutt for himself when he left his fits horne home to st start art lite life for himself lie he went empty handed lie ile was already some months over 21 years of age but he had nothing in the world riot not even IL a suit of respectable clothes and one of the first pieces of work lie he did was to split four hundred ralla rails tor for every yard of brown jeans dyed with white walnut bark that would be necessary to make him a pair of trousers ile iio had no trade no profession no spot pot of land no patron no influence two things recommended him to his neighbors he was strong and lie ho was a good fellow ills strength made him a valuable laborer not that he was fond of hard labor sirs airs crawford says abe was no hand to pitch into work like killing snakes but when he did work it was with ith an ease and effectiveness which compensated his employer for the time he spent in practical jokes Joke and sand extemporaneous speeches jig he would lift as much is as three ordinary men and my auw he would hop says bays dennis hanks ills axe would flash and bite into a sugar tree or sycamore and down it would come it if you heard him fellin trees in a cl clear earin ln you would s say there re was a s three men a at t b by y th the ay w way the y ahw the e t trees rees fell S standing ta rid din ric s six 1 x feet four lie he could out lift outwork out work and outwrestle out wrestle any man he came in contact with friends and employers wore were proud of his strength and boasted of it never falling failing to pit him against any hero whose strength they heard vaunted lie he himself was proud of it and throughout his life was found ot of comparing himself with tall and strong corrective manner said jrush hush hush papal papa pointing at the same time to the door the little girl at when twenty two months old was disappointed because a certain mr G C did not call in the evening she said mr air D did not turn was waa very naughty mr air D have to be whipped so natural and inevitable to the intelligence of a child does it seem that the tha of restraints rebukes and punishments under which he ha lives lv es should have un universal iger v validity aall d lity ali this is judicial bent of f the e child i la s a curious one and often cevelo develops Ps a priggish fondness for setting others morally s straight tr a small a 11 boys have t to 0 e endure n dure rit much u in n th this S w way ay from the h hands an d s ot f slightly older sisters proficient in matters ol of law and delighting to enforce the moralities but sometimes the sisters lapse into naughtiness and then the small email boys have their chance they too can on such occasions be priggish it if not downright hypocritical A little boy had been quarreling with ills his sister named muriel just before going to bed when he avas undressed he knelt down to say his prayers muriel sitting near and listening lie he prayed audibly in this wise please god make muriel a good girl then looked up and said in an angry voice do you hear that Mur muriel lel and after this digression resumed his petition from studies of childhood by prof james sully in Apple tons popular science monthly tor for december |