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Title: Plucky boys
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Boys
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the good old minister had somethought of him Sunday when he preached fromthe text: I will go forth in the strength of the Lord ;and in a dim, boyish way the lad took the wordsto his heart and felt that he was not going alone onthis quest after a support for his mother and littlesisters. Percy intended to foot it to Washington, butBen was at the widows house bright and earlyMonday morning with a parting present — a rail-road ticket to Washington and six new crisp onedollar greenbacks. No one knew how carefullythose bills had been hoarded, that Ben mightcarry out his dream of spending a week at Wash-ington himself, the next March to see the Inaugu-ration ; but he gave them up cheerfully, for Percyssuccess was far more important than the realizationof his dream. 3o8 THE PRESIDENT S PAGE. So, instead of starting off in the gray dawn, theboys lingered till train time, at ten oclock. Theywent to all their old haunts — the great tree wherethey had tried so unsuccessfully to build a house
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CALLING A PAGE. a la Swiss Family Robinson ; the pond, wherethey fished, or swam, or skated, according to theseason; they chopped a supply of wood for thewidow and at last walked to the depot where THE presidents PAGE. 309 Percy jumped on the train and was off forWashington. Washington, during the war, was a most be-wildering and exciting place for any boy. Percyforgot for a time his loneliness, forgot even hisgreat ambition, in looking about him. All wasso strange to the little Virginian who had neverbeen outside of his own village. Slowly, yetsurely, he found his way to the Capitol and intothe Senate Chamber. The first thing he noticedwas — not the pure white marble desk wherethe Speaker sat, not the beautiful frescos, northe different men of whom Ben had asked himto make careful note; no, he caught sight atonce of the little boys running here and therewith bundles of paper; he saw one Senator andthen another clap his hands with a sharp ringingsound and soon saw that that was a su

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