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Chapter 4: his father ruined—removal to Vermont.
New Hampshire before the era of manufactures
causes of his father's failure
rum in the olden time
an execution in the house
flight of the father
Horace and the rum jug
Compromise with the creditors
removal to another farm
final ruin
removal to Vermont
the winter journey
poverty of the family
scene at their New home
cheerfulness in misfortune.
But while thus Horace was growing up to meet his destiny, pressing forward onVermont
the winter journey
poverty of the family
scene at their New home
cheerfulness in misfortune.
But while thus Horace was growing up to meet his destiny, pressing forward on the rural road to learning, and secreting character in that secluded home, a cloud, undiscerned by him, had come over his father's prospects.
It began to gather when the boy was little more than six years old. In his seventh year it broke, and drove the family, for a time, from house and land.
In his tenth, it had completed its work—his father was a ruined man, an exile, a fugitive from his native State.
In those days, before the great manufacturing towns which now afford the farmer a mar
Chapter 5: at Westhaven, Vermont.
Description of the country
clearing up land
all the family assist a la Swiss-family
Robinson
primitive costume of Horace
his early indifference to dress
his manner and attitude in school
a Peacemaker among the boys
gets into a scrape, and out of it
Assists his school-fellows in beast; so he ran away.
Considerate nature!
Horace, all through his boyhood, kept his object of becoming a printer, steadily in view; and soon after coming to Vermont, about his eleventh year, he began to think it time for him to take a step towards the fulfilment of his intention.
He talked to his father on the subject, but r he Seventeen so unenviably notorious!
The Editor of the Tribune is of that proportion, be it small or large.
Though a boy in 1824, and living a mile across the Vermont line of the State, he can never forget the indignation awakened by that outrage, which made him for ever an adversary of the Albany Regency and the demagogues who