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Title: A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company San Francisco, Cal., R. J. Trumbull & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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and her childrenleft without shelter, he raised, by personal effort, a sumsufficient to relieve her. And when asked to contribute forthe building of a new church, he replied :— I am very glad to ; we ought to have a comfortableplace for preaching. I dont attend as much as I should,but Julia and the children do.. We ought also to have aSabbath-school in the neighborhood. While living at Wishtonwish one winter, he discov-ered that some interloper was cutting and carrying awaywood from the Hardscrabble tract, two miles distant. Ona bright moonlight night he started to catch the thief.While sitting upon a stump, he heard a team coming, andhid himself. A burly fellow, who rented a neighboringfarm, stopped his horses within fifty feet of him, chopped atree, cut it up, loaded it, and then started for the main road.Grant took a short cut, intercepted him, and accosted himwith an air of surprise :— Halloo, Bill! going to St. Louis with your wood, Isuppose? Y-es. How much do you ask for it?
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;W YORK ;LIC LIBRARY astqr, i.£Nox aM0 T,LO£N FOUNDATIONS. is58.) An Adventure with a Wood Thief. 157 About four dollars. Well, Ill take it. Bring it over to my house. No ; I have promised it to a man in town. But I must have it. Now theres no use in hesi-tating ; you must haul this load to my house, and payme twenty dollars for what you have cut and carriedaway before. That wont be more than half price, youknow. If I dont, I suppose youll sue me before the squire ? No, we wont trouble the squire or the public, but willsettle the matter right here and now. And the captain, his sense of humor giving way to hisindignation, sprang forward and seized by the collar thehuge trespasser, who instantly cried :— Hold on! Ill do it; but dont say a word to any-body. The wood was delivered, the money paid, and the thiev-ing discontinued. G rants neighbors found him, though very sociable, silentabout persons of whom he could not speak well. Often hekept his hearers sitting up until midnight aro

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