From a New England hill the boy who built a Congress
A poor New Hampshire boy named Tom grows through hardship learning Latin grammar and reading Virgil after a generous stranger buys him books. He trains, apprentices as a blacksmith, then moves to a city to study, rise to Congress, and repay his benefactor who once sold him a Latin grammar.
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