...I confess I am inclined on the whole to exclaim: What a wholesome bringing up it was! I must find room for one story of Grant's boyhood, a story which he tells against himself :-- There was a Mr. Ralston living within a few miles of the village, who owned a colt that I very much wanted. My father had offered twenty dollars for it, but Ralston wanted twenty-five. I was so anxious to have the colt,...