WASHINGTON AS A BOY.
(!«>n>e Washington is so famous as the founder of the I'nited States of America that many people forget that he was once a British officer. While still a child George Washington lost his father, who left the family without adequate, means of support. 31 is education was of a rather rudimentary character. Some of his old exercise books are still to be seen and show liim to have been careful and methodical in liis work. All sorts of sports appealed to him. and we are told that at playtime he took great delight in forming his comrades into companies, which he drilled, marched and paraded. Sometimes he divided them into two armies, which fought mimic battles, he himself taking command on one side. Washington cultivated good manners* from the first, and a distinguished diplomat, speaking of Washington, said that he had never conversed with a better-bred sovereign in any court of Europe.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 16
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156WASHINGTON AS A BOY. Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 16
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