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create any other impression than that it was fresh and clean.
We had some books, but not many. Mother liked poetry and read some novels. Father had no taste for books, but always took and read a daily paper. My grandfather Moor read books and papers, so that he was a well-informed man.
My grandmother Coolidge liked books and besides a daily Chapter in the Bible read aloud to me "The Rangers or the Tory's Daughter" and “The Green Mountain Boys,” which were both stories of the early settlers of Vermont during the Revolutionary period. She also had two volumes entitled "Washington and His Generals,” and other biographies which I read myself at an early age with a great deal of interest.
At home there were numerous law books. In this way I grew up with a working knowledge of the foundations of my state and nation and a taste for history.
My education began with a set of blocks which had on them the Roman numerals and the letters of the alphabet. It is not yet finished. As I played with
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