The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield

is mother will not give her Consent.-Hires out as a Woodc

heir lands, would draw the refuse logs and branches into a great pile and burn them. The ashes thus collected, they sold to this Mr. Barton, who went by the name of "black-salter," beca

ck-salter, and he offered him fourteen dollars

f in Michigan," and James was greatly delighted at the pro

uld have chosen; and the mother dreaded for her

working-hours. Their profanity shocked him; and he gladly tur

's Own Book," were in fact more dangerous companions for him than the coarse, brutal men would have been. The printed page carried with it an authority that the excited boy did not

thule" of all his dreams. He longed to see some more of the world, a

sneering tone as her father's "hired servant." This was more than t

hat night; I lay awake under the rafters of that old farm-house, and vowed, again and again, that

employer that he had concluded to

ed him to stay, by the

ined to find some other and more congenial way

he family favored thi

go to sea, James," she said in her firm, decided tones, "remember it w

t want to oppose his mother's will

wanted to hire some wood-choppers. After talking the matter over with his mother, he decided to off

married, lived near this uncle, so

field, although she was loath to par

his uncle, at the rate of fifty cents a cord, a

ke Erie. With stories from "The Pirate's Own Book" still haunting his brain, it was not strange that

getting ahead of him in the amount of work accomplished. He began to realize that he was wasting

-faring tales he had read; and when those hundred cords of wood were cut

as it was now the last week in June he hired himself out to a

ous exercise in the open air had greatly enhanced his powers of endurance. Whatever he undertook he was determined to carry th