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Title: Talks about authors and their work
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bloor, Ella Reeve, 1862-1951
Subjects: Authors, American Authors
Publisher: Chicago : A. Flanagan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to make the worldbrighter and better. LOUIS AGASSIZ. THE SWISS BOY. Born May 2S, 1H07; Died 1873. In a little village called Motier, among thefoothills of the -g^^^ Alps, there lived aminister named Agassiz, with his wife, Rose,and their two little boys, Louis and Auguste. Louis and his brother didnt go to school untilthey were quite large boys, but their father andmother taught them many things at home. Louislearned more from Mother Nature than he didfrom his books, roaming the fields, catching in-sects, and watching all kinds of animal life. He had many pets, birds, mice, rabbits, andevery kind of animal he could catch, but hisspecial interest seemed to be in fishes. Hewatched the little nooks and corners where thefishes lived, and where their homes were. In the yard of his home a stone basin hadbeen built to hold the waters of a spring. Theboy kept his fishes in this basin and watchedtheir doings very carefully, until, he knew thehabits of each fish. He soon developed the won- (62)
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Louis agassiz. 64 TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. derful powers of observation, whicli afterwardhelped him more than all his books and teachers. In those days it was the custom in Switzerlandto get all necessary work done by traveling men,instead of depending on stores and shops. Tailorswould go from house to house, making clothes; car-penters, shoemakers, and other mechanics wouldgo around the country in the same way. Many ofthese travelers stopped each year at the littlehouse where the Agassiz family lived, and theboy watched them carefully while they worked,and he often astonished the family by makingsomething just after they left. In this way, hemade a pair of shoes for his sisters doll, after avisit from the cobbler, and a water-tight barrel,after watching the cooper make one for hisfather. All his playmates seemed to know that thisboy, who could tell them so much about insects,fishes and wild-flowers, was different from otherboys, and he was always glad to answer theirquestions and show th

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