New-York tribune., 1890-06-29
ANECDOTES or BEBSTEh
THE KIND OF BOY HE WAS.

From The Boston saturday Evening ua"evo e"cc given
D,re, and his brother Ezekiel were n o'''p Lind of
drecnohS o ~ Grpg @ his temporary absence from mo,e n
but on his return at night ne iUn ht have Won been
Psrfornf9 aad iro"nlGSi ySSihns inS sr vas the rSgIy
Wc panieI what have you been doins ,eer seyines
&c leNe M 'hn,sb dsvs II is said that some years avn in
Webster reached his zenith n, Mrn. Nc and saw an
the morning ,in oyer ~ cranl@rrcs what are you
sSont S ad the great jqrls don't E9% f"0" She
again>t the law TO DO what you a!e IfIc old ewes
t,1rnn1 round upon him, and fixing her ieeUo o''
upon him, aid ,.rs In, I don't mind 'cm:
'em i ii'@1 @"r,nbcrr,c, wherever end en- .,,
walton "a va" NOT word bnt tGrncd upon hi9 ncoI ~
and t,Ic old woman picked crahDcfrlI' '''''0 "
sue whrn webster was about seven years OF age ere
father Kept rye n9,i in q the a5 Of obtaining dinner
and feeding their horses, and we n,' H. fathers
@,ot hv reading aloud some Of the Psalms oi d :,
io the great delight Of his rusU. ISL nnIIcd ND
H. borc a; the Webster tavern, Let go VI a onthe
' palm from Dan Webster. only rev. womghi o'gh,
before his death wcsc bendihI 6a "t tnc,e and other
,hHgs AT Mar,hGcd 20 his private secretary io first
Ihcn 'st"T AZ x"rr under Dr. benjamin Abbott when
ho rcctcd his fist Latin lessons 10 M, ,e t pIiIIips
sevcns nngmnNter T >. speaN sht in % pubic on the stage
wa decided failure For the moment Ne beam
s, w. cVcrythnr he undertook. who coull repca,
Palm, - few tclm>ter, at me asc ~ ,,rnoin,
i a. " nt hc ovcrcamc A. a, Ianman goc' on 10 ~
iv The triumph of his Will ana ir1M 'ne r,citcrS
whcr nftcou wear, old he went 10 i'oaciN''' ~ -
aud h nrccept6r Dr. Wood. thought proper 10 sES
panG ' & Anon tG. hin, and along the streams, mnns
ara n,hlng- falling, which he never -. .,h rb than
vs.. AZ, hi uar.irular occasion he Wa aHsleucu
ono hundred lines of Virgil 20 commit !" ,H n'u'.G ~
rci,itinn hour arrived he rccitcd his hundred nc'
,y,h approba:.on But have few n2rc Inc. ,c
,n't W. b, ,hcn old thc tutor and forthwith the 10y
r,c,nS N sn",hcr hundred Very rcmar'ablc you
bnn;drcG .a,d DANIEL and five hundred Of thcm' II
''l ,cycr took to farm work II> father once
..rt lin from r,c;cr - 20 mp 10 the ola hon's'ra
and ,.,i him In hayine fcw daN, Hr N'u, up p %,o n
'' ,c complalnci 10 h- mother that his hand,
wcrc bli-crei and hc didn't kc the WORK MS @ k,n
aftcr dirncr Nl, father being a~ail 'oHnT pAniei pane
tachcd mp th" family ho-r p@,I'I Iicrri ,NI ~ rhi
ended hi, farming day. Back T." 'choo went INC I'
'Wc.er w,s Only ,cw month, preparing for col!csc
during whch brief period hc mastered The sinfy oi
crock - ;hn' hi- tutor aid IN that short hH' nc a.
uu r,d l'lt took other boys az cuir' year 30 com
aI, h fticr.. children. set from hi earliest
hoy hood he was great devourcr ~ tho 'ianlhr bp"h
of the fav such 4, Popc's translation Of Homer the
- F,,ay on Man ard lddl~or9 spectator; ne seq
ond II which he committed to memory IN parin'ut
'oll"si ttn"Fn - i n ia' '' s'vs ianInan Sh6rt
fr,,, L.ri, ni,,- ~ cnd The Ublo and ~1ko,pclrc
were hi, cr..t flv0r.tcs ard h" world an"-t - ~"
day of hi, death rccltc from memory many Of The
j. aim, and iywn~ ~ Dr. Watt. Nhat q dcHGltini
ide, do wc get fr n those boyish traits! How lovely
doe. the character ~ Webster appear T. u' dhd Nhd'
[nd ~, mi, l,y so@s on through college and enters
tho world = STRIFE and iafc- fhr prpud',i pla''
nan can tale leader II not pcrhfp, M pnc"
but gradually learning = know men,; Ntrr NJ Erfu
alton hc kept school At Frychnrg Ne. AT saar' "i
$50 per auuuu. . arc" prcc then. for II was largo
echool II Wa there he went through h> first reading
~ Blackstone and other works 10 which. perhaps b"
lure III ooufllr deed, AZ - cents per deed hnd
when. In 81. be returned from The White Mountains
with h. .ou Fletcher: ne oame hv way ~ trycnnrg
Office " the county rroNcr and exhibited - his sons
two largo bound volume, of decd, In hi, own hand
writing. the -ist Of which was u course suggestive
that tc a,h" was not yet ont II his fingers which 80
much writing caused them.
Hut m" writor cannot follow the subject Of this
sketch - hr would wish to the beautiful day In !
October I-j1 when Mat mourniul procession passed
aong the green At Mar,hhcd. bearing all that wa,
mortal Of Ills Great man. something, however Ia, |
That the private life ~ Webster full Of liberation
~ the fault, ~ others that he possessed vast
his friends and uc'chbOrs, and. - sum up the whole.
ded perfect Christian. Lanuan say,: ." The dis |
tnct impression len upon my mind was that II h.
ere not genuine Christian the promises the Blbo
were all fable and cod know, that would rather
die than for q moment IMAGINE such state of |
things" \, he sat out beneath The old Mar, r,hncd@ |
bophs of tn, old Testament and dwct with unaffected
pleasure upon Isaiah. the Psalms. and especially the
book of JOB. The latter. he said. takcl a. mere |
work Of literary genius. Of the most wonderful
productions Of any age or oi any language As I'm |
epic poem ne deemed far superior tO either the Had
lr Ody.-cy being purely Intellectual narro,vc do |
The Interest Of the story, 10 produce its effects
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