Ulysses S. Grant (Volume 8) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Excerpt: ... THE LIFE OF GRANT. CHAPTER T. A The Child Teamster*--Home and Birthplace.--Early Times in Ohio.--Rome Discipline.--Schools and Teachers.--The First Horse Bargain. - '. In the autum.fi of the year 1830 some men were felling trees and chopping cord-wood, . about a mile from the village of- Georgetown, G-bio. Little use was made of coal in those days, -except in a few of the great Eastern cities, and this-was the time of the year, after the fall of the leaf, when supplies of fuel could best be laid up. The piece of forest-land the choppers were at work in contained about fifty acres, and was the property of a well-to-do farmer and tanner of Georgetown, named Jesse R. Grant. He was one of the active and influential men of the neighborhood, although not wealthy, and had been the first mayor of Georgetown, but had never consented to run for any other office. Adding the needs of the tannery to those of his own dwelling, he burned more firewood than other men. Hauled close to where the choppers were at work was a two-horse wagon, rigged for its present uses with a wood-frame and stakes, and it was packed with cord-wood as soon as enough for a load was ready. It was a very commonplace operation. Something nearly like it was going on at countless other places all over the United States, but this load of wood had something about"it which the others had not to make it. interesting.: DEGREES: y Standing "near "the team, watching the work and waiting for the load to be corripleted, was a short, sturdy-looking, rosy-faced boy, not more than eight years qld, -wiih a whip in his hand. He was too small t6 lifojogs of wood, but as-s(c)on as the last of these was;froisted into place, he_toek the reins and clambered toJ: he top of the load.' . The team obeyed him perfectly V the choppers, made "no rema.