"The good story-teller effects much; he has an ennobling effect upon
children,--so much the more ennobling that he does not appear to
intend it,"--FROEBEL.


All this time while George Washington had been growing up,--first a
little boy, then a larger boy, and then a young surveyor,--all this
time the French and English and Indians were unhappy and uncomfortable
in the country north of Virginia. The French wanted all the land, so
did the English, and the Indians saw that there would be no room for
them, whichever had it, so they all began to trouble each other and to
quarrel and fight.

These troubles grew so bad at last that the Virginians began to be
afraid of the French and Indians, and thought they must have some
soldiers of their own ready to fight.

George Washington was only nineteen then, but everybody knew he was
wise and brave, so they chose him to teach the soldiers near his home
how to march and to fight.

Then the king and the people of England grew very uneasy at all this
quarreling, and they sent over soldiers and cannon and powder, and
commenced to get ready to fight in earnest. Washington was made a
major, and he had to go a thousand miles, in the middle of winter,
into the Indian and French country, to see the chiefs and the
soldiers, and find out about the troubles.

When he came back again, all the people were so pleased with his