Identifier: mccluresmagazinev8mccl (find matches)
Title: McClure's magazine
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949
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Publisher: New York : S.S. McClure
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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e leftGeorgetown withregret. Hismother said good-by in her singulars e 1 f-repressivemanner, andUlysses startedout to take thestage to Ripley.As he went bythe Bailey houseMrs. Bailey and her daughterscame out to wishhim good jour-ney. It was abeautiful Mayday, the most be-witching time ofall the year insouthern Ohio,and the girls metUlysses on thesoft green grassbefore the house.Mrs. Bailey,warm-heartedand impulsive,kissed him andsaid tearfully,Good-by,Ulysses. Asshe turned away,Ulysses, deeplymoved, said won-deringly, Why,Mrs. Bailey, myown motherdidnt cry! Yetthere can be no question of his motherslove for him. It is at this moment that we come uponthe change of name. Up to the startfor WTest Point, Grant had been HiramUlysses, or H. Ulysses Grant. The youngtraveller required a trunk, and ThomasWalker, a local genius, was the man tomake it. He did so, and, to finish it off,he traced on the cover, in big brass tacks,the initials H. U. G. Tames Marshall, BATTERY, WEST POINT. New York.
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PLEBE BOAT RACE, WEST POINT. From a photograph loaned by Lieutenant S. C. Hazzard, West Point. GRANTS SECOND CHANGE OF NAME. 201 Ulyssess cousin, went to help him carry the area to the old South Barracks to reportthe new trunk home. Ulysses looked at to the cadet officers. Next he was sent tothe big glaring letters. I wont have the quartermaster for his outfit, which con-that so, he said. It spells hug ; the sisted of two blankets, pillow, water-pail,boys would plague me about it. And he broom, a chair, etc.; and he was requiredthereupon shifted his middle name, and to carry all these things himself on thebecame Ulysses H. Grant, and so he went handle of his broom, past the officersforth into the world. quarters, past the howling cadets, while By his teaming and farming he had ac- every mothers son of them said: cumulated about $100, which was a great Hello, plebe; how do you like it ? deal of money for a boy of his age in These belongings he was taught to pile those days. Forty-eight

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