CHAPTER X.
A COUSIN'S REMINISCENCES.
During his school-life at Geauga Seminary James enjoyed the companionship of a cousin, Henry B.Boynton, who still lives on the farm adjoining the one on which our hero was born.

The relationship between the two boys was much closer than is common between cousins; for while their mothers were sisters, their fathers were half-brothers.

Henry was two years older than James, and they were more like brothers than cousins.

I am sure my young readers will be glad to read what Henry has to say of their joint school-life.

I quote from the account of an interview held with a correspondent of the Boston _Herald_, bearing the date of September 23, 1881: When General Garfield was nominated to the Presidency his old neighbors in Orange erected a flag-staff where the house stood which Garfield and his brother erected for their mother and sisters with their own hands, after the log hut, a little farther out in the field nearer the wood, had become unfit for habitation.