Identifier: statesmen00inbroo (find matches)
Title: Statesmen
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Subjects: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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on on foot was to come up, take the horse,ride on beyond the walker in front, then tie, andso on. We passed through Wooster, stayingthere overnight. This place seemed to me tobe a great one, and the lighted houses, as wewent in after dark, were very splendid. In threeor four days we reached Worthington. I enteredthe town walking, and met my uncle in the streetwith two or three of his clergy or friends. The young lad, now domesticated with hisuncle, the Bishop of Ohio, was expected to pur-sue his studies, already well begun, and to dochores. He was proficient in Latin and Greek,and Rollins Ancient History was read andreread by him, as many modern boys might read10 146 STATESMEN a cheap novel. A ludicrous incident of hisWorthington life, says one of his biographers,J. W. Shuckers, fastened itself strongly in hismemory. One morning the bishop and all theolder members of the family went away, leavingthe boy at home, with directions to kill and dressa pig for the next days dinner. I had no
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The House in which Mr. Chase was Born, at Cornish, N. H. great difficulty, said Mr. Chase, in catchingand slaughtering a fat young porker. A tub ofhot water was in readiness for plunging him inpreparatory to taking off his bristles. Unfortu-nately, however, the water was too hot, or per-haps when I soused the pig into it I kept himthere too long. At any rate, when I undertookto remove the bristles, expecting that they would SALMON P. CHASE 147 come off almost of themselves, I found to my dis-may that I could not stir one of them. In pig-killing phrase, the bristles were set. I pulledand pulled in vain. What was I to do ? Thepig must be dressed. About that there must beno failure. I thought of my cousins razors, anice new pair, just suited to the use of a spruceyoung clergyman as he was. No sooner thoughtof than done. I got the razors and shaved thepig from tail to snout. I think the shaving wasa success. The razors were damaged by theoperation, however, but they were carefullycleaned

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