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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 1 1 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
ndow fearlessly,--I now suppose that I might be like fearless,--and explained to me all that she knew — or was then known — of the lightning. She told me never to be afraid of it, because it was in God's hands; that if He willed my destruction by it, it was not to be evaded or shunned, and, therefore, was not to be dreaded. When the evenings were dark, her labors with her needle began earlier. In the following winter, my mother and my uncle provided a home for me in Deerfield, with Aunt Polly Dame,--no relative of mine save that she was aunt to all the world. She was a good old lady taken care of by her daughter, and sat in the corner spinning flax on what was called the little wheel, to distinguish it from the great wheel on which wool was spun. I went to school, and I think was liked by my teacher, for I was not a troublesome scholar, except in the way of asking very many questions, and of seeking explanations about matters which I was not infrequently told did not concern