| Show I Ir i r rr r z z Genius Genius Not b j by Distasteful Overcome v q me by Toil You can cun take your our your choice choice go go hack back to Cheshire tomorrow or go to in In tn the clock factory J These were the alternatives offered to young oung Alcott by his his father Alcott who was to become the father fattier OC of Louise Louisa May Alcott had hacI returned from froni the home borne of oC his Ills uncle where he be had be been n sent to go to school Honore Morr Morrow w writing In McCalls McCall's has told of at the early life of ot this neglected neg neg- man of ot letters Tie lie relates Ill go to the clock factor factory s said ld Bronson Dronson quickly And AncI so It was cI de dd cried The sort of ot work required of ot him made macIe no demands on his brain and by carrying on one of ot his precious borrowed borrowed borrowed bor bor- rowed books always with him he did not ot stagnate though at the time he thought he did and was vas va's terribly unhappy unhappy unhappy un- un happy Yet set rather than than- go back to Cb Cheshire he to the factory w work rk for nearly neady two years CIa Els mother watching him start off each morning along the lonely and precipitous pathway pathway pathway path path- way that led the two miles mUes from the farm to the factory yearned over him him wondered at his gentle obstinacy worried worrIed worried wor wor- ried over him but never evidently lost her faith or understanding g |
