Excerpt from A Sketch of the Life of John McLean, of Ohio His father, meantime, was still too straightened in his circumstances to afford him any thing better than the very limited tuition of the common school near him, got by snatches as the farm and the seasons permitted. Indifferent, however, as this make-shift schooling must generally be, the activity of the youth's own mind supplied all its interruptions and imper fections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.