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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 4: his father ruined—removal to Vermont. (search)
there; the lawn is untrimmed; the attempt at a park-gate has lost enough of the paint that made it tawdry once, to look shabby now. But this gentleman was useful to Zaccheus Greeley in the day of his poverty. He gave him work, rented him a small house nearly opposite the park-gate just mentioned, and thus enabled him in a few weeks to transport his family to a new home. It was in the depth of winter when they made the journey. The teamster that drove them still lives to tell how old Zac Greeley came to him, and wanted he should take his sleigh and horses and go over with him to New Hampshire State, and bring his family back; and how, when they had got a few miles on the way, he said to Zac, said he, that he (Zac) was a stranger to him, and he did n't feel like going so far without enough to secure him; and so Zac gave him enough to secure him, and away they drove to New Hampshire State. One sleigh was sufficient to convey all the little property the law had left the family, and
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 5: at Westhaven, Vermont. (search)
southern travel, and living upon its shores brought the boy nearer to that world in which he was destined to move, and which he had to know before he could work in it to advantage. At Westhaven, Horace passed the next five years of his life. He was now rather tall for his age; his mind was far in advance of it. Many of the opinions for which he has since done battle, were distinctly formed during that important period of his life to which the present chapter is devoted. At Westhaven, Mr. Greeley, as they say in the country, took jobs; and the jobs which he took were of various kinds. He would contract to get in a harvest, to prepare the ground for a new one, to tend a saw-mill; but his principal employment was clearing up land; that is, piling up and burning the trees after they had been felled. After a time he kept sheep and cattle. In most of his undertakings he prospered. By incessant labor and by reducing his expenditures to the lowest possible point, he saved money, slow