Bennie The Pythian Of Syracuse

Author : Lewis Barnett Fretz
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330156292
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Bennie, the Pythian of Syracuse written by Lewis Barnett Fretz and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bennie, the Pythian of Syracuse: And Other Titles Is a native of Indiana, born near Newberry, March 4. 1868. His early years were spent on the farm after the fashion of the ordinary country boy. Coming from an ancestry whose history was made in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Alsatia and Lower Switzerland, he inherited a strength of constitution able to bear the requirements of great energy. Full of life and activity, not unmixed with ambition, he began early to do things. Possessing good intelligence, intellectual life became most natural, and at the age of twelve he was known as a full-fledged book agent. A close student of human nature, this experience made him keenly observant of men and events. His school days ended at the age of sixteen, when he began the practical operations of life. After serving a three years' apprenticeship at the painter's trade, he found the use of pigments and oil detrimental to health, and abandoning that profession took up an apprenticeship in the printing business, beginning November 19, 1888, in the office of the Auburn Courier, which position opened the way to higher intellectual attainment; though not without privation and many a hard struggle. Possessed of unusual oratorical talents, Mr. Fretz lost no opportunity for their cultivation, and at the age of nineteen stood without a peer in DeKalb county as a debater. 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.