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Updated: June 21, 2025
He was employed to build a wood-shed for a black-salter, ten miles away from his mother's house, and when the job was finished his employer fell into conversation with him, and being a man of limited acquirements himself, was impressed by the boy's surprising stock of knowledge. "You kin read, you kin write, and you are death on figgers," he said to him one day.
He had an active temperament, and would have been happiest when busy, even if he had not known that his mother needed the fruits of his labor. He had one source of enjoyment while employed by the black-salter, which he fully appreciated.
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