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Excerpt from Teuchsa Grongie: A Legendary Poem The subject of this memoir remained at home, working on his father's farm, and going to school from two to four months in the year, till he was fifteen years of age. He received the limited benefits of such a common school education as was afibrded in the country towns of New England, in the fore part of the present century. He had, however, an eager desire for reading and for books; and he has always improved all his Opportunities in this respect, to the utmost possible extent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.