DANIEL WEBSTER’S FATHER
On a bleak morning Daniel Webster was helping his father build a fence on their rocky New Hampshire farm. Daniel’s father stopped his work, turned to his son, and told him he was going to college — his ambition would be fulfilled. His father’s words were: “…we intend to wear our old clothes another year. We have put a second mortgage on our farm. I was denied an education for myself, but I am determined that one of my children, anyhow, shall have a chance to be a scholar.” That night neither Daniel nor his father could sleep. His father was at the age of retirement but chose to forgo that well-deserved life of ease and luxury. He chose, rather, to take up his work anew with a prayer of thankfulness that his boy was to have a chance in the world. And a chance in the world it became. Daniel Webster became one of the most famous men of his…
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