Identifier: williamlloydgarr01garr (find matches)
Title: William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879 : the story of his life told by his children
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907 Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916
Subjects: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 Abolitionists Antislavery movements
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
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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n Bartlett. The good Deacon, who was in veryhumble circumstances, sawed wood, sharpened saws,made lasts, and even sold apples from a little stand athis door, to win a subsistence for his family ; and Lloyd,who was an exemplary and conscientious boy, andwarmly attached to his kind friends, dutifully tried todo all he could to lighten their burden of poverty. Therewere times, however, when he wished that he did not haveto follow the Deacon about to help him saw and split wood,and would much rather have gone off to play with otherboys; and once, when aggrieved by the denial of someprivilege which he had asked of the Deacon, he ran awaywith an enterprising comrade, and was met twenty milesfrom town by the driver of the mail-coach, who pickedup the fugitives and brought them back. Lloyd was a thorough boy, fond of games and of allboyish sports. Barefooted, he trundled his hoop all overNewburyport; he swam in the Merrimac in summer, andskated on it in winter; he was good at sculling a boat;
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THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, NEWBURYPORT.GARRISONS BIRTHPLACE. Mr. 1-13.) BOYHOOD. 29 he played at bat-and-ball and snowball, and sometimes chap. ii. led the South-end boys against the North-enders 1805^1818. in the numerous conflicts between the youngsters of the two sections ; he was expert with marbles. Once, with a playmate, he swam across the river to Great Rock, a distance of three-fourths of a mile, and effected his return against the tide; and once, in winter, he nearly lost his life by breaking through the ice on the river, and reached the shore only after a desperate struggle, the ice yielding as often as he attempted to climb upon its surface. It was a favorite pastime of the boys of that day toswim from one wharf to another adjacent, where vesselsfrom the West Indies discharged their freight of mo-lasses, and there to indulge in stolen sweetness, extractedby a smooth stick inserted through the bung-hole. Whendetected and chased, they would plunge into the water andescape to the

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