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 130 Another reason why Washington is loved and honored to-day is that he died before we had a chance to get tired of him. This is greatly superior to the method adopted by many modern statesmen, who wait till their constituency weary of them, and then reluctantly pass away.

N. B. Since writing the foregoing I have found that Washington was not born a poor boy, a discovery which redounds greatly to his credit, that he was able to accomplish so much, and yet could get his weekly spending money and sport a French nurse in his extreme youth. B. N.