The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-10-28
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gasp anything which had not been
reached By their greatgrandisshsfs lie
he'd three children, two boys snd . sifl.
There wAs Jeremiah, seventeen yesfs
old; samuel illeeu, Fanny, tearicen
Il vs.. a sDld winters day ssinael
was ia lho Kitchen reading book, snd
30 interested was be that be did pol no.
ilce the entrance Of bis father. Jerry
vas ia The opposite cotpet spgs@d ipI
eipbcriug oul sum which be had fond
ID Lls arithmetic.
Sam, sid bic father, have you worked
That sum ont yegs
No, father, answered the boy heslta.
tingly
Didn't tell sou TO stick to your ariih-
meiie til you had done iis said Mr.. VIM
tbrop 10 a severe tone.
samuel bel Ia down his bead and looked
troubled.
Why haven't you done III continued
the father,
l cau't do It, father, trembnngly said
samuel
Can't do III And why Boty Look at
Jerry there, with his slate and pencil.
lie bad eiphored further than you have,
long before he was as old as YOU are.
Jerry was always ioHd OF sums and
problems, father, They have no interest
at all for me.
That's becasse you don't try TO feel an
interest in your studies What book il
that yon are readingi
It's work on philosophy.
A work on fddlesticksl Go put il
away this instant, and then get your
slate; aud don't let me see you away
from your arithmetic until you are able
10 work out those roots. DO YOU under
stand2
Samuel made no answer, but silently
he put away bis philosophy and then he
got his slate and sat down IN the cbim-
ucy corner. His lip lrembled and bis
eyes moistened, for be was very unhappy.
Ills father had been harsh towards lin,
aud be felt that il was without cause.
Sam, said Jerry, as soon as their father
had gone out Of the room, I'll do that
sun for you.
No, Jerry, replied The younger, with a
grateful look; that would be deceiying
father, I'll try to do the sum, but feaI
that shall not succeed.
Samuel worked very hard, but all tC
no purpose. His mind was not on The
subject before him. The roots aud
squares, the bases and perpendiculars
though comparatively simple IN them
selves, were TO him mass Of lncompre
Eensisle things and the more he tried
the more he became perplexed and both
cred,
The truth was, bis father did not un
derstand him.
Samuel was bright boy and uncom
monty intelligent for one of his age. Mr.
Winthrop was thorough mathemati
clan; he hardly ever came across o prob
lem be could not solve, and be desired
that his boys should be ike him he con
sidered that the acme of educational per
fecIion lay in the power of conqueriu,
Euclid, and be often expressed the opin
ion that were Euclid living then, b
could give the old geometrician tussle
lie seemed not to understand that differ
ent minds were made with different ca
pacities, aud what one mind graspe,
with ease, another of equal power woulI
tail to comprehend. Hence as Jerr
progressed rapidly with bis mathemati
cal studies, aud could already survey
piece of land with many angles, he in
agined that because Samuel had made u
progress in the same branch, be was idi
J aud careless, and so treated him accofe
ingly. lie never candidly converse
with bis younger son with view TO al
certain the true bent Of his MUD; but Ii
had his own standard OF the power OF a
minds, aud he pertinaeiously adhered /
) it.
There was another thing that Mr.. Wi;
throp could not see, and that was thl
Samuel was continually pondering upo
snoh profitable matter as was interestin
10 him, snd that he was scarcely eve
idle nor did his father see either, lbl
il be ever wished the boy to become
mathematician, be was pursuing tbe yei
course 10 prevent such result. laslea
Of endeayoring to make the study iuie
I esting 10 the boy be was making ii o.
noxious.
The dinner hour came, and Samu
bad not worked out bis sum. His fatbi
was very angry, and obliged him 10 !
without his dinner, and At The same tin
telling him that be was lazy, IA
boy.
Poor samuel left the kitchen for :
: own room, and there he sat and erie
AZ length bis mind seemed to pass fro
! the wrong be had suffered at The bar
= of biz father, sud his face lighted or
There was a large FIRE in The room belo
Dis chamber, so be was not very coh
aud getting up be went 70 cl6sel, II
+ IRON under lot Of clothes be took sof
long strips Of wood. lie was cyiaeu,
fasbioniug some curious affair from the
pieces u wood. lie had biis a. Wii
little scraps Of tiB plate, pieces Of twi
aud dozens Of small wheels that be b
r made himself and be seemed 10 be woi
log 10 get the whole together AFTER sor
particular fashion u bic own.
q. Half Tie afternoon bad thus pass
away when hts kisfer eutareN fte fts