If you teach winters, and work on the canal or lake summers, you will have employment the year round." Nevertheless Mrs.Garfield was probably not in favor of his spending his summers in the way indicated.

She felt, however, that her son, who was a boy like other boys, must be gradually weaned from the dreams that had bewitched his fancy.
Then his mother proposed a practical plan.
"You have been obliged to spend all your money," she said, "but your brother Thomas and I will be able to raise seventeen dollars for you to start to school on, and when that is gone perhaps you will be able to get along on your own resources.".