Show genius not overcome by distasteful tol toil yon can take your choice go back to cheshire tomorrow ur or go to work in tile the clock factory these were the alternatives offered to young bronson Il ronson alcott by tits ills father alcott who was to become the fattier of louisa may alcott hail had returned from the home of his uncle where he be had been sent to go to school honare willsie 31 morrow orrow writing iri id mccalls Mc Calls has told of the early life of tills this neglected man of letters he relates ill go to the clock factory said bronson quickly and so it was decided the rhe sort of work required of him made no demands on his brain amin and by cr cr one of its hla precious borrowed books always with ham he did not stagnate though ai the time he be thought though lie did and was terribly unhappy yet rather than go back to cheshire lie he clung to the factory work for nearly two years els cis mother watching him start off each morning along tile the lonely and precipitous pathway that led the two miles from the farm to tile the factory yearned over him wondered nt at his gentle obstinacy worried over him but never evidently lost her faith or understanding |