home. 
incident, 
The report of this 
with 
the affair 
of 
the 
picture, 
which 
11 ad 
occasioned 
his 
sen ce 
from 
school, 
and 
visit 
to 
Philadelphia, 
made 
great 
impression 
OH 
the 
boys 
in 
the 
neighbourhood 
of 
SpringF1eld. 
All 
their 
2iCCUS- 
tomed 
sports 
WGTE 
neg] ected, 
and 
their 
hours 
to 
rvoted 
drawing 
with 
chalk 
and 
oker. 
The 
little 
president 
VVBS 
confessedly 
the 
most 
expert 
3.IIlOHg 
them, 
has often 
but he 
since 
clared, 
that, 
his 
according to 
recollection, 
many 
of 
his 
juvenile 
companions 
evinced 
degree 
of 
taste 
and 
skill 
in 
this 
exercise, 
that 
would 
have 
done 
110 
discredit 
students of 
to the 
any 
regular 
academy. 
Not 
far 
from 
the residence of 
Mr. West 
-maker 
a cabinet- 
had 
a shop, 
in 
which 
Benjamin 
sometimes 
amused 
himself 
of 
with the tools 
the 
workmen. 
One 
day several 
large 
and 
beautiful 
of 
boards 
W GTE 
poplar tree 
brought to it ; 
and 
he 
happ611i"g 
to 
observe 
that 
they 
would 
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