Don’t be too sure of first impressions.

One spring, before the Civil War, a boy in search of work came to Farmer Taylor’s prosperous Ohio farm.  The farmer knew nothing much about the boy except that his name was Jim, but he gave him a job.  Jim spent the summer cutting stove wood, bringing in the cows and making himself generally useful.  He ate in the kitchen and slept in the haymow.  Before the summer was over, Jim had fallen in love with Taylor’s daughter.  When the farmer refused to let him marry her – telling him bluntly that he had no money, no name and very poor prospects – Jim put his belongings in his old carpetbag and disappeared.

Thirty-five years passed before Taylor one day pulled down his barn to make way for a new one.  On one of the rafters above the haymow, he discovered that Jim had carved his full name – James A. Garfield.  He was at that time President of the USA.