...etimes were not for three or four days. I then learned that there was a small town library there, and of all things that a boy of that age should read, I was allowed to take from the library Rollin's Ancient History ,--and I read it. I had not the slightest knowledge of chronology, and I thought the events in the history followed one after another in point of time,--the Assyrians, the Persians, the Greeks, an...