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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II SCHOOL DAYS It was decided to send me away to a boarding school. My sister had married and as her husband's brother?a boy of about my age?was at Mr. Harris's school at White Plains, N. Y., that was to be my destination. The Erie railroad had already been built as far as Owego and beyond, under the presidency of my sister's father-in- law, Mr. Benjamin Loder; and over this, an all-day journey through the outer world brought my mother and me to New York, and to new wonders for the country boy. One little incident of our stay of a few days in the city at the then best hotel?on the corner of Chambers Street and Broadway?is worth telling. My mother took me with her to do some shopping, and stopped to buy some lace at a little shop which had recently been opened by A. T. Stewart, and was, I believe, the beginning of his career?I think he had no clerks. After selecting what she wanted, my mother, putting her hand into her pocket, found only a mass of small pieces of paper. She had started away with a fifty dollar bill loose in her pocket, and during the long walk had been absent-mindedly tearing it to pieces. Handing back the parcel, she turned to leave, but Mr. Stewart insisted most politely that she should sit down, and he would make it all right. Then gathering the fragments together, he spent nearly an hour in matching and pasting them on paper, and handed the change to my mother. From that time to his death, and later during the existence of the house under hisname, practically all of the shopping of our family was done at Stewart's. When we reached White Plains, my mother left a very homesick boy and a large hamper of cakes and marmalades. It was a small school?about thirty pupils?and somewhat exclusive, the boys coming largely from old city families. The...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217258890 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217258891 |
| Weight | 0.92 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 In |
| List Price | $21.98 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 282 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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