Show l V Earned Fir t Hundred Dollars Cornelius COlnelius later to be lie the commodore was a n strong big healthy healthy- boy who ho worked worle on the farm and teu tended ed his hits fathers father's boat bont lIe He was as asa a great glent lover of ot horses nn and when h he was six sis y ars ul old raced with other oth er boys lIe He played ed truant to go sailing sailing sail sail- ing lug and swimming and gallivanting across the countryside side and sometimes he lie talked ell of running away to sent sea On May 1 iSlO 1810 he sought from his mother mothel to buy himself a harbor boat a n piragua and become a boat boat- nina man She promised him the mone money If he would plow and plant a certain rocky eight acre field by ly May Iny 2 27 his sixteenth birth birthday ay lie ne persuaded the neighborhood boys to help him and on the morning of his birthday day he got he-got got the tho About s seventy years later he had hail increased the to OCO I Md e in Colliers Collier's Weekly |