of the easy manners and courteous deportment
which are said by all who knew him to have been
so marked in him.

Nathan Hale, as a boy, had one more asset that
must have helped to insure his future success, and
that did, as we believe, help him to die nobly.
He was not overindulged; he had always the spur
of effort to urge him forward. It was told of him,
many years after his.death, by the woman he had
loved and who had known him well all his later
years, Mrs. Alice Adams Lawrence, that whatever
he did, even as boy, he did with all his heart, as if
it engrossed his whole mind. Whether it was work,
or study, or play, he gave all his energies to the
doing of it. Such a disposition, together with his
fine home training, must have helped to insure his
success in Yale.

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