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x the death of our Jate President,
Millard Fillmore, whose portrait is
here presented to our readers, has
become the Chief Magistrate of the

United States. This you doubtless all
know; but perhaps you do not know
much about the history of the new Presi-
dent, and so I will give you a little sketch
of it. Mr. Fillmore is a remarkable man.
He affords, in his own experience, an
illustration of the truth, that, in this coun-
try, the road to honor is open to all—the
poor, as well as the rich—the boy with

few as well as the one with many advan-
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tages. It is a fact which ought to be
known by every boy on this continent,
that the man who now occupies the high-
est office in this republic, was once an
apprentice to a clothier. You look as-
tonished, and wonder how it was possible
for him to work his way up to the Presi-
dential chair; but he did it, nevertheless.
Would you like to know how! I can tell
you, and I will tell you, if you will promise
to remember it. He did it by making
the most of all his time. When he was
a little boy, and went to school, he was a

good scholar. No one ever caught him
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