CHAPTER VIII.
GEAUGA SEMINARY.
I have stated in a previous chapter that James became acquainted with Dr.Robinson while still employed on the canal.

This statement was made on the authority of Mr.Philo Chamberlain, of Cleveland, who was part proprietor of the line of canal-boats on which the boy was employed.
Edmund Kirke, however, conveys the impression that James was a stranger to the doctor at the time he called upon him after his sickness.

Mr.
Kirke's information having been derived chiefly from General Garfield himself, I shall adopt his version, as confirmed by Dr.Robinson.
When James walked up to the residence of President Hayden, and inquired for Dr.Robinson, he was decidedly homespun in appearance.

He probably was dressed in his best, but his best was shabby enough.

His trousers were of coarse satinet, and might have fitted him a season or two before, but now were far outgrown, reaching only half-way down from the tops of his cowhide boots.