Show AM 5 f THE ME STORY BY THE PRESIDENT installment 7 the soldierly young gave those who knew him best as well as those who he met him but to pass the impression of a singular In gular restraint and telf self which lent a peculiar dignity and to his bech and car carriage ilage they deemed him deeply passionate patton le and yet could never remember to have seen him la in pas elon the impression waa was often a wholesome check urn uron strange s and even upon frienda friends and neighbor neighbors who would have sought to impose upon him blin terrible in his HI wrath no doubt bo ta t a had given way to bursts of passion often enough in camp and upon the march when in etE efficiency cItney disobedience or cowardice algerd him hotly and of a sudden there were stories to be hoard of men inen who bad had reason to remember bow how terrible ho he could be la im hie his wrath hut he had earned leaned in the very beat lid ind discipline of such scenes how ho he must curb and guard himself against surprise and it was mas no doubt trials of command made la in his youth that ind irid given him the fine one belt self poll men noted in him now he ile had been bred in a strict school of manner manners at Itel voir and greenbay green say ny court and here at his own mount vernon in the old day days a and d 1 he place V 1 I must hare have teemed seemed to him full of the traditions of whatsoever hato oever was as juat just and honest and lovely and of good report ne an he be looked back to the time of his gentle brother it was still dangerous lo 10 cros cross or thwart him blin indeed poach cru erv might look to bo be caught and thrashed by the matter master him sell if it he chanced their way negil gent overseers might expect harp sharp penalties and am unfaithful contractors it strict accounting if necessary work went wrong by their fault always open to conviction lie was wa exacting almost to the point of harshness harah neis in every matter of jast right or authority but he was open and holesome hole iome tome as an tho the day and rea onalle to the point of pity in every affair of through it all now it was ray my rascally rat cally overseer overe eer ila in his ills diary when certain talis inal inalee es nere i ere abot ant home carce scarce able to highline high lone ranch much lees less to albest in the tuai lut losa ess of the plantations but not net a month later it was my worthy overseer bardwick Kar dwick lyhl in 1 ta cb cheter eiter of a broken leg 1 I it wa was not in n ha his way to add anything to tho the I penalties of nature A quiet simplicity of ot we 11 ae I 1 and a genuine lore love of real parl rid him of morbid humon all up and down the world whilo while tho the eighteenth century lasted gentlemen were commonly corn conly to be found drunk after dinner outside new now england where the ef of chirch had fastened so 0 o i angular a discipline in manners upon e whole society and virginian gentlemen had bad a reputation for deep j drinking which they had been at it some pain paint to deserve A rural society excitement and can get it very imply simply by uch such practices odero la in always if leisure loure to leop sleep even though your dinner in the middle of the he day and there Is t good reason you bould should oe ot thirsty if it aru hare have been since day break in the saddle not flat a hard drinker Drink Drin klir jr to ride hard and to arink hard seemed to go together a virginia as inevitably aa as the i in a sorg and famous hadd riding after tho the fox for 0 oer ter the ivash fields holds and through the dee it wash ington drank only sint mi st be beel or cade cider aej a couple of glasses of madeam at dinner II 11 was wits no doubt because a be he bad had found bia his quick bowd enoish choi gh and had bet set himself a hard bard regimen as a ho ile did aid not scruple to supply drink enough for the cathering when he presented himself to the vol vot en ers of the as a candidate for the bouse louse of burgesses burg esies A hogs licad and a barrel of punch thirty five gallons of wine ane forty totty three gal ions of string elder cider and dinner for hid his friends was what he cheerfully paid for a its first election and the poll fooled footed but a few mardred votes ell told mount blount vernon saw as much corn com pany and all constadt coni con laut merriment and good cheer as s any house in virginia and the master was no martinet to his guests even though they came upon professional errands doctor laurie came here I 1 nay mar add drunk says Ms otilea diary without comment though the doctor hid jid come upon summons urn moo to attend mm washington nid and was next morning orning ra suffered to ase use his lancet for her hat relief no doubt a good fellow when sober and nit ant to ta be lightly chided when drunk like rany a gallant honeman horseman and tent lemin who sho joined the meet of the country fide ide at the hospitable place to follow tho the hounds bounds hen the hunting war good k fox rox montira winter end and summer Sum frer there waa was fox hunting winter and in cespon id td out bill but the oos art rt as oat best in abb frosty djs of j ji buur rv and sim r aruar when the year wl s o od d ahe emea of the I 1 folin irr round gathered 4 t or 24 A gunston hall or mount blount vernon two or three limes times a week to warm thelt their blood in the bale hale apart and dine together afterwards a cordial company of neighbors with as many topics ot of good talk re foxes to run to cover tha the bunt hunt went fastest and most it lu cese ces antly atly when lord fairfax came down from boru his hl lodge la in the valley and joined them for days together in the field and at the table loved horses and dogs with the heartiest sportsman of them all he ile had a great gusto for stalking deer with george mason blazon on the broad forested tracts round gunston hall and liked often to take gun or rod after lesser game when the day days fell dull but beat ept of all be he loved a horses back and the hard ride rids for hours to gether after the doge dogs and ft st crafty rya horse it put a man to bis his points point to ride a country where the rutin running tag as only for those who dared A judge of ilia ills own mounts could nowhere be bettered in virginia there was full blood of araby amby in his noble magnolia and as grod hunting blood as was to bu bo found in the colony in his nine shin skin and ajax valiant and Ch inkling hie ilia hounds he bred so flawd so landed so matched in speed and habit that they kept always tun t and pace together in the field ai V cry more tunca tune able blo was never holla holia d to nor cheered alti hern herr than theirs when they were ere let arvi 1 4 their mouth till echo replied as an if it another chan was in the ekr first to the stables for him always tn in the morning and then to the kennels it had ben been hard and anxious work for washington to get his affairs in to prosperous shape again hen he the war waa ws over and those long ho ti opelee summer summers on the stricken frontier stock buildings fences everything had to be renewed reut ted rep repaired alred for the first two or three year years there were even provisions to buy so blow slow was the place to huppert itself once more not only all his own ready money but all he got by his marriage too and more bertges bert ber des ldes waa BARIl B allowed owed up and he found himself in debt before matters were finally ft to rights and profitable crops made and marketed but the thing once done aralda eleard and became easy as tie if it of their own accord tn in the business busl nes of ratite rk tite A master matter of men the men be he had to deal with pree pres antly knew their master the young planter had matured his plans and his discipline henceforth blit affairs were ha ay i 41 lor 06 J i ia I 1 7 mount vernon in the old days well in to hand and he could take hie his wholesome pleasure both handsomely and ith a tree free heart there wag was little that wa was deboo jr about the disciplined and masterful young soldier lie ile had bad taken pallas Palla smi a gift belt self reverence belf knowledge self control these three 1 irad lead life to 0 o sovereign power and because right li is right fight to follow right were tn in the acorn scorn of consequence put he took heed of hia his life very generally and aa an matured by pleas ure no it ice as than by duty ilone jone he lie loved a game of carda cards in to almost any compa compard rj and paid his stakes take upon the rubber like every other weil weila con ducted man of hl his century enjo ed d a hood nood horse hor race lie ile not find annapolis Anna polli or eren even philadelphia too far avay away to be via ted for the pleasure of seeing a good bone horse race or noyong noyl log ng a round of balia balls and evening at the heater theater to shake the rustic dullness of ft mi too cori contant tant atay stay at flume mn mrs gnashing IN too ton enjoyed sach uch outings ou fing such little flings 1 into the simple world of protin 1 clat achton fashion aa much as he did and they could not eit sit waiting all the year f r the short season at 4 hocog man nt once so 10 handsome so fA motil rod and w punctilious in point of dress he ls colinea washington could not but w arfi a notable figure in any society 1 I want neither lace nor em 1 was the order he sent to london Pl plain Alli clothes cl with gold or silver button it f worn warm in genteel drea dress 0 o all I 1 desire my stature la Is alz six feet otherwise rather lender than corpulent dut but he aa as careful the maternal mater lAl iAl the color and the fit should be ot of the best and most taste fut ful and that very elegant stuff m sh h auld be provided from over the sets for mrs irs washington and her children and very substantial t he servants cr ranta who rho were to bo be lo 10 attendance cipot the hoase houm lold tolda a livery of white and scarlet a point cf of pride with virgin LIDS tins to know how bow to dres dresa both well and in t tj fashion and the matter of mount blount vernon would have deemed it an impropriety to be leia less careful than hia his neighbors leas less ell dressed than hie station and fortune warranted lie ile matched watched the tradesmen sharply a custom I 1 have some reason to believe with many shopkeepers and tradesmen in london he wrote blunt ly to the gary cary when they know goods are bespoken for exports ion tion to palm pallu nome sometimes times old and sometimes very alight slight and indifferent goods upon us taking care at the same time to adrance advance the prie pric e c and he wished them informed that their dis taut tant customers would not be so duped longed to go abroad he ile longed once and again to bo be quit of the narrow life ot of the colony aad and stretch himself for a little upon the broader english stage rt at home out but I 1 am tied by the leg he told his friends there end land must mut set inclima tion malde my myself in a trip to england depends upon s so 0 many contingencies which in all probability may never occur that I 1 dare not eren even think of such a gratification hut but the disappointment bred no real discontent there could bo be no better air or company to come to maturity in than were to be had there in virginia it if a Y young oung man inan were ere poised and master maiter of himself we have few things here striking to european travelers except our abundant woods he protested professed when he wrote to his lis kinaman kinsman richard washington in england but lit tie variety a welcome reception among a few friends and the open and prevalent hospitality of the countr but it was a land that bred men and men of affairs aff alre in no common fashion unrest in the colonies especially now after the quickening of pulses that had come with the french war and its sweep of conti ianth 1 even of international forces across the colonial staga hitherto et only for petty and sectional affairs tho cho colonies had grown self conscious cone clous and ie lest atless less as the plot thickened and thrust them forward to a rolo role of con sequence in the empire such as they had never thought to 0 o play and the events which succeeded hurried them to a quick maturity it was a season a young man was sure to ripen in and there wag a good company the house of burgesses was vry try quiet the year washington first took toik his place in it and stood abashed to hear bear himself praised but before mr robinson its ta already veteran speaker as dead a notable change had set not in at odds with Pari parliament lament within ave years before the cabuz try on the st lawrence and the lakes takes was well oit ait of the banda hands of thi french the parliament la in england bad had entered upon measures ot of government which seemed meant of deliberate purpose to be the colonies col onlee agog and every body of counselors in cit blood stood between anger and to eee see their people la in danger to be so put upon the threat and pressure of the french power upon the frontiers bad had made the colonies thoughtful always to long aa as it lasted of their depend ence upon england tor for succor and de tense hould should therb como come a tima ais ot of need once and again often enough to keep them senal sensible ble bow how they must stand or tall fall succeed or fall with still the power at home bome their own raw levies 11 bad had taken part ath ith the kings troops out cut of england in acme some clumsy stroke or other against a french freach stronghold in the north or a spanish fortress forar as la in the south and now at last they bad gone with english troops into the field in a national cause provincials and red redcoats had bad joined tor for a final grapp v with the french to settle once and for all who hould be owners and masters master no on the coveted continent no longer dependent the easue had beja decisive sire by the hummer ummer if t 1760 11 ashington ashl agton could write his kinsman in england that the french were wore so thoroughly drubbed and bumbled humbled that there remained lit tie to do to reduce canada from end to end to the british power but the very thoroughness of the success wrought a revolution in the relations of the colonies to the malber country it rid them of their sense of dependence xa ilah regiments had clustered mustered theli thousands 0 0 doubt upon the battlefield of the war in order that the colonies might be DA tree free to possess the continent and it was bard hard to see bee bow the thing t aula hare have been accomplished without ibm hut but it bad been accomplished and would not need to be done adalu not overawed by Fore foreigner lamers moreover More it bad shown the colonial militia how strong they were eun evan in the presence ot of regulars regul mrs tey had almost everywhere borne home an equal part in the dalling Bsh ting and rank and file they had bad left with a keen resentment the open contempt for rude equipment and antl rustic rustle discipline which too many arrogant officers and mind insolent men among the bad shown they knew kne that the had proved themselves res the me equals quals of any I 1 man in to the kings apty pty in the fighting and they had come out of tha th hot t business confident that henceforth at any rat rate they could dispense with english troops and take care of them selves they had lost both their fear of the french and their awe of the Lu duglish glish hardly an opportune time for statesmen la in london to make a new and larger place tor for england a authority in america and yet that was what they immediately attempted save chatham and burke and a few discerning men who had neither place cor nor power there was aa no longer any ono one in england who knew though it were never eo so vaguely the real temper and character of the colonists matter of common knowledge and comment it li Is true that men of massachusetts were beyond all 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