 | Industrial arts - 1832 - 488 pages
...turning chair-posts. This gave my brother an opportunity of learning the use of tools when very young. He lost no time, but as soon as he could handle tools...seemed not to like working on the farm. On a time, afler the death of our mother, when our father had been absent from home two or tbree days, on his... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1833 - 426 pages
...brother an opportunity of learning the use of tool« when very young. He lost no time, but as noon as he could handle tools he was always making something...two or three days, on his return he inquired of the house, keeper what the boys had been doing ? She told him what B. and J. had been about. But what has... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 528 pages
...gave my brother an opportunity for learning the use of tools when very young. He lost no time, but as he could handle tools he was always making something...shop, and seemed not to like working on the farm. His father once enquired what Eli had been doing, he being about twelve years of age ; the answer was,... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton growing - 1836 - 502 pages
...for learning the use of tools when very young. He lost no time, but as he could handle tools liewas always making something in the shop, and seemed not to like working on the farm. His father once enquired what Eli had been doing, he being about twelve years of age ; the answer was,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1842 - 516 pages
...turning chair posts. This gave my brother an opportunity of learning the use of tools when very young. He lost no time, but as soon as he could handle tools...like working on the farm. On a time, after the death rf our mother, when our father had been absent from home two or three days, on his return, he inquired... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1844 - 524 pages
...turning chair posts. This gave my brother an opportunity of learning the use of tools when very young. He lost no time, but as soon as he could handle tools...in the shop, and seemed not to like working on the tarm. Oa a time, after the death of our mother, when our father had been absent from home two or three... | |
 | Henry Howe - Technology & Engineering - 1858 - 524 pages
...This gave my brother an opportunity of learning the use of tools when very young. He lost no tune, but as soon as he could handle tools he was always...in the shop, and seemed not to like working on the iarrn. On a time, after the death of our mother, when our father had been absent from home two or three... | |
 | John McGilchrist - 1860 - 404 pages
...turning chair-posts. This gave my brother an opportunity of learning the use of tools when very young. He lost no time ; but, as soon as he could handle...the farm. On a time after the death of our mother, whet our father had been absent from home two or three days, on his return he inquired of the housekeeper,... | |
 | New England - 1890 - 746 pages
...De Bow's Industrial Resourees, etc., of the South and West, Vol. I., p. 2o7. a Ibid. his sister, " but as soon as he could handle tools he was always...shop, and seemed not to like working on the farm." At the age of twelve he made a fiddle that excited much admiration, and the ingenuity which he thus... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Artists - 1887 - 632 pages
...This gave my brother an opportunity of learning tho use of tools when very young. He lost no tamo, but, as soon as he could handle tools, he was always...shop, and seemed not to like working on the farm. One time, after the death of our mother, when our father had been absent from home two or three days,... | |
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This gave my brother an opportunity of learning the use of tools when very _ young. He .lost no time; but as soon as he could handle tools, he was always making something in the shop, and seemed not to like working on the farm. 
