In this second volume of Boys of Grit , you will find inspiring stories such as that of an ordinary blacksmith who mastered twenty languages because he valued every spare moment. The life stories of these men will give boys and girls hope, courage, and motivation to become all that God wants them to be. Enjoy true accounts of American inventors Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, Canada’s greatest merchant Timothy Eaton, Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, American vocalist Roland Hayes, Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn, English philanthropist and soap maker William H. Lever, English hymn-writer Isaac Watts and more.