and haul it, he would give me one
dollar for my services. I agreed to do it and at two o'clock the next
morning I was at his home hitching up the team to haul the wood. I had
to go about two miles for the wood and there was a very heavy frost that
morning. By five o'clock I had hauled the wood and had the team back to
my neighbor's home waiting for my dollar. I thought this to be the
coldest morning that I had ever experienced up to that time. I then got
my few things together and was off for school.

I reached Tuskegee the first day of '89. I found things there very
strange indeed. Hundreds of students were going to and fro. Some were
playing football, others were having band practice, and still others
were going around doing nothing, as the first day of the New Year was a
holiday. I was placed with a crowd of boys from Pensacola, Fla. I
learned afterwards that they were the roughest boys in school. They made
it very unpleasant for me, so much so that I decided to return home. In
going back to the office I met Mr. Washington for the first time. He
wanted to know why I was not satisfied, and after I told him my
troubles, he said that he would remedy them. I was deeply impressed with
him and from that day to this, I loved him as a father. He changed my
room and I found a crowd of very congenial boys.

The next ordeal through which I was to pass, was going into the
dining-room and using knives and forks, but I avoided all humiliation by
simply watching. I have made it a rule of my life to never be the first
to try new things, nor the last to lay old ones aside.

After supper, I was worried about sleeping. I had heard the boys talking
about night shirts and I knew I had none; in fact, I did not know their
purpose. So when time came to retire, one of the boys in my room who had
several, gave me one, then I was undecided just whether it was to go
over my day shirt or over my undershirt, but I did not want to ask how
it should be worn, so I decided to sit up until some one had gone to bed
and by watching him I knew I would learn just how to use mine. In this
way I came through all right. The habit of using the tooth-brush was not
so hard.

The next day the regular routine work of the school began and I was
given my examination. I took examination for the B-Middle class. This is
the second year normal. Miss Annie C. Hawley of Portland, Maine, who was
then a teacher there, gave me the examination. I made the class in all
of