Word: towpaths
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Short hauls to Rome, N. Y., long hauls to Albany, the oldtime "canawlers" of the Erie Canal made with boatloads of machinery and produce. It was a leisurely existence, drifting along four miles an hour behind stout teams that trudged the towpath. For a few months Dan'l Harrow, farmer, was a part of it. Clever with horses, he hired on as driver to a canal captain and then fell heir to the boat. For "cook," meaning servant, companion, and mistress-as-long-as-compatible, he hired vivacious Molly; for driver he hired Fortune Friendly, variously parson and pinochle...
...Hearst). One of them said (in part): "In the Tradition of Lincoln, the Republican Party Offers Herbert Hoover for President. "True to the spirit of Democracy, it turns again to a man of the people for a successor to Lincoln the railsplitter, Grant the tanner, and Garfield of the towpath - to a blacksmith's son, an Iowa orphan and country schoolboy, raised by his own merits, to a plane of distinction in more fields of usefulness, than any man the nation has ever been privileged to place in the White House. . . . "His career is marked with the callouses...