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Title: The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief

Author: Morrison Heady

Editor: William M. Thayer

Release Date: October 24, 2008 [EBook #27012]

Language: English

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BOSTON

WALKER WISE & Co.]

THE
FARMER BOY,
AND
HOW HE BECAME COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

BY UNCLE JUVINELL.

EDITED BY
WILLIAM M. THAYER,
AUTHOR OF "THE PIONEER BOY," ETC.

SEVENTH THOUSAND.

BOSTON:
WALKER, WISE, AND COMPANY,
245, WASHINGTON STREET.
1864.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
WALKER, WISE, AND COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District
of Massachusetts

BOSTON:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON.
No. 5, Water Street.

INTRODUCTION.

BY REV. WILLIAM M. THAYER.

The reader will remember, that, in the preface of "THE PRINTER BOY," I
promised the next volume should be "THE FARMER BOY; OR, HOW GEORGE
WASHINGTON BECAME PRESIDENT." That pledge has never been redeemed,
though some labor has been performed with reference to it. And now
Providence seems to direct the fulfilment of the promise by the pen of
another, soon to be well known, I doubt not, to thousands of young
readers;--"Uncle Juvinell."

The advance sheets of a volume from his pen, upon the early life of
Washington, have been placed in my hands for examination. I have
carefully perused the work, and find it to be of so high a character,
and so well adapted to the exigencies of the times, that I voluntarily
abandon the idea of preparing the proposed volume myself, and most
cordially recommend this work to the youth of our beloved land. I take
this step with all the more readiness, when