Identifier: greatamericanboo01mabi (find matches)
Title: The great American book of biography
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Garnett, William, 1850- (from old catalog) Thomas, Allen Clapp, 1846- (from old catalog) Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840- (from old catalog) Birdsall, William Wilfred. (from old catalog) Johnson, Willis Fletcher, 1857-1931 Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898 International publishing company, Philadelphia. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia and Chicago, International publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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oom ; and I, not being so good a woodman as the rest, stripped myselfvery orderly, and went into the bed, as they call it, when, to my surprise, I foundit to be nothing but a little straw matted together, without sheet or anything else,but only one threadbare blanket, with double its weight of vermin. I was gladto get up and put on my clothes, and lie as my companions did. Had we notbeen very tired, I am sure we should not have slept much that night. I made apromise to sleep so no more in a bed, choosing rather to sleep in the open airbefore a fire. On the 2d of April he writes, A blowing, rainy night. Our straw, uponwhich we were lying, took fire ; but I was luckily preserved by one of our meaawaking when it was in a flame. We have run off four lots this day. George returned from this tramp with all his energies consolidated by toil,peril, and hardship. Though but seventeen years of age, he was a responsible,self-reliant man. The State of Virginia now employed him as public surveyor.
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WASHINGTONS RECEPTION AT TRENTON. A PERILOUS JOURNEY. 37 For three years he was engaged in these laborious duties, which introduced himto scenes of romance and adventure. Though he often, during these three years,visited his mother, his headquarters were with his brother at Mount Vernon, asthis was much nearer. Lord Fairfax, who, it is said, was the victim of a lovedisappointment, had built him a substantial stone mansion in the valley beyondthe Blue Ridge, where he was living in a sort of baronial splendor, and whereGeorge was an ever welcome trviest. MISSION TO THE FRENCH COMMANDER. Having performed his duty as surveyor so well, he was chosen adjutant-general, with the rank of major, over a portion of the militia whose duty it wasto repel the encroachments of the French and Indians. In the meantime, how-ever, he was absent four months in Barbadoes with a sick brother. The ne.xtyear, being then twenty-one years of age, he was sent as commissioner byGovernor Dinwiddle to demand of the

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