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奥里森·斯威特·马登：向前进·摘录 87
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
"Don't go about the town any longer in that outlandish rig. Let me give you an order on the store. Dress up a little, Horace." Horace Greeley looked down on his clothes as if he had never before noticed how seedy they were, and replied: "You see Mr. Sterrett, my father is on a new place, and I want to help him all I can." He had spent but six dollars for personal expenses in seven months, and was to receive one hundred and thirty-five from Judge J. M. Sterret of the Erie "Gazette" for substitute work. He retained but fifteen dollars and gave the rest to his father, with whom he had moved from Vermont to Western Pennsylvania, and for whom he had camped out many a night to guard the sheep from wolves. He was nearly twenty-one; and, although tall and gawky, with tow-colored hair, a pale face and whining voice, he resolved to seek his fortune in New York City. Slinging his bundle of clothes on a stick over his shoulder, he walked sixty miles through the woods to Buffalo, rode on a canal boat to Albany, descended the Hudson in a barge, and reached New York, just as the sun was rising, August 18, 1831.
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定位：Excerpt 87 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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有人劝霍勒斯·格里利：别穿着那身怪模怪样的衣服在城里晃了，我给你开张店里的单子，去添置点衣服吧。格里利低头看看自己，好像头一回注意到衣服有多寒酸，回答说：斯特雷特先生，您知道，我父亲刚换了个新地方，我想尽量帮他。七个月里，他花在自己身上的钱只有六美元，而替《伊利公报》法官斯特雷特做替班工作能挣一百三十五美元。他只留下十五美元，其余全给了父亲。他和父亲从佛蒙特搬到宾夕法尼亚西部，很多个夜晚露宿野外，守着羊群防狼。他快二十一岁了，虽然又高又笨拙，头发亚麻色，脸色苍白，说话带鼻音，但他决心去纽约闯天下。他把一包衣服用棍子挑在肩上，穿过树林走了六十英里到布法罗，坐运河船到奥尔巴尼，再乘驳船顺哈德逊河而下，在1831年8月18日太阳刚升起时到了纽约。
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霍勒斯·格里利后来成为《纽约论坛报》创办人。马登讲述他年轻时极度节俭、步行闯纽约的经过。
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