Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 13911-h.htm or 13911-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/9/1/13911/13911-h/13911-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/9/1/13911/13911-h.zip) Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN by ELBERT HUBBARD Memorial Edition 1916 CONTENTS THE LITTLE JOURNEYS CAMP GEORGE WASHINGTON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN THOMAS JEFFERSON SAMUEL ADAMS JOHN HANCOCK JOHN QUINCY ADAMS ALEXANDER HAMILTON DANIEL WEBSTER HENRY CLAY JOHN JAY WILLIAM H. SEWARD ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE LITTLE JOURNEYS CAMP BERT HUBBARD A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; a brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life. --Elbert Hubbard [Illustration: THE LITTLE JOURNEYS CAMP] It was not built with the idea of ever becoming a place in history: simply a boys' cabin in the woods. Fibe, Rich, Pie and Butch were the bunch that built it. Fibe was short for Fiber, and we gave him that name because his real name was Wood. Rich got his name from being a mudsock. Pie got his because he was a regular pieface. And they called me Butch for no reason at all except that perhaps my great-great-grandfather was a butcher. We were a fine gang of youngsters, all about thirteen years, wise in boys' deviltry. What we didn't know about killing cats, breaking window-panes in barns, stealing coal from freight-cars, and borrowing eggs from neighboring hencoops without consent of the hens, wasn't worth the knowing. There used to be another boy in the gang, Skinny. One day when we ran away to the swimming-hole after school, this other little fellow didn't come back with us. You see, there was the little-kids' swimmin'-hole and the big-kids' swimmin'-hole. The latter was over our heads. Well, Skinny swung out on the rope hanging from the cottonwood-tree on the bank of the big-kids' hole. Somehow he lost his head and fell in. None of us could swim, and he was too far out to reach. There was nothing to help him with, so we just had to watch him struggle till he had gone down three times. And there where we last saw him a lot of bubbles came up. The inquiry before the Justice of Peace with our fathers, which followed, put fright in our bones, and the sight of the old creek was a nightmare for months to come. After that we decided to keep to the hills and woods. This necessitated a hut. But we had no lumber with which to build it.