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Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3
Little Journeys To The Homes Of American Statesmen
Elbert Hubbard
Memorial Edition
1916
CONTENTS
THE LITTLE JOURNEYS CAMP
GEORGE WASHINGTON
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
THOMAS JEFFERSON
SAMUEL ADAMS
JOHN HANCOCK
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
DANIEL WEBSTER
HENRY CLAY
JOHN JAY
WILLIAM H. SEWARD
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
THE LITTLE JOURNEYS CAMP
BERT HUBBARD
A little more patience, a little more charity for all, alittle more devotion, a little more love; with less bowingdown to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretendedauthority; a brave looking forward to the future withmore faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe fora great burst of light and life.
—Elbert Hubbard
THE LITTLE JOURNEYS CAMP
It was not built with the idea of everbecoming a place in history: simplya boys' cabin in the woods.
Fibe, Rich, Pie and Butch were thebunch that built it.
Fibe was short for Fiber, and wegave him that name because his realname was Wood. Rich got his namefrom being a mudsock. Pie got his because he was aregular pieface. And they called me Butch for no reasonat all except that perhaps my great-great-grandfatherwas a butcher.
We were a fine gang of youngsters, all about thirteenyears, wise in boys' deviltry. What we didn't knowabout killing cats, breaking window-panes in barns,stealing coal from freight-cars, and borrowing eggsfrom neighboring hencoops without consent of thehens, wasn't worth the knowing.
There used to be another boy in the gang, Skinny. Oneday when we ran away to the swimming-hole afterschool, this other little fellow didn't come back with us.
You see, there was the little-kids' swimmin'-hole andthe big-kids' swimmin'-hole. The latter was over ourheads. Well, Skinny swung out on the rope hangingfrom the cottonwood-tree on the bank of the big-kids'hole. Somehow he lost his head and fell in.
None of us could swim, and he was too far out to reach.There was nothing to help him with, so we just had towatch him struggle till he had gone down three times.And there where we last saw him a lot of bubbles cameup. The inquiry before the Justice o