It was not his way.

He resolved to consider whether anything could be done, and what.
My chief object in writing this volume being to commend its subject as an example for boys, I think it right to call attention to this trait which he possessed in a conspicuous degree.

Brought face to face with difficulty--with what might almost be called the impossible, he did not say, "Oh, I can't do it.

It is impossible." He went home to devise a plan.
First of all, it was important that he should know something of the intervening country--its conformation, its rivers and streams, if there were any.

So, on his way to his room he sought a book-store and bought a rude map of Kentucky, and then, shutting himself up in his room, while others were asleep, he devoted himself to a lesson in geography.