He was his parents’ first child, and his mother soon noticed how strong he was! When he was just six months old, he was sitting in her lap.
He stretched out his arms – and accidentally knocked one of her teeth out! His mother did not mind, though. She knew it was an accident, and was glad to have such a healthy baby boy.
Cassius’s father, Cassius Senior, was an artist and sign-writer who loved to show off and tell tall tales. His mother, Odessa, was a kindly lady who taught Cassius and his little brother, Rudolph, to be polite and truthful and hard-working. The family lived in a nice cottage with a garden, and always had new clothes to wear and enough food to eat.
Like his father, little…
