the subjects except grammar. Of this subject I knew absolutely
nothing. I did not know what a sentence was. I could not tell the
subject from the predicate, so I was put back two years into what is
called the A-Prep. class.

After my examination I was assigned to my work. I was placed in the tin
shop, which was then being placed as one of the industries, under Mr.
Lewis Adams. I was the first student to work in this shop, but it did
not take two days to learn that I could never be a tinsmith. Next I was
assigned to the printing office, but here too I found that I could never
become a printer; so finally, I was put on the farm and there I remained
during my whole stay at Tuskegee. The farm manager at that time, Mr. C. W.
Green, had charge of the brick-yard, poultry, dairy, landscape gardening,
horticulture, as well as the general farm and truck-farm. I worked some
in all of these departments and enjoyed my work immensely. I considered
the work in the brick-yard as being the hardest of all and that was the
only work which I could not do without suffering great pain because of
my physical condition. Still I was willing to endure suffering if by so
doing I could obtain an education.

I did not go to night school because I was given extra work, such as
keeping the clocks on the campus regulated and making fires in the
girls' buildings, and too, they had a system of electric bells which
were used for the passing of classes, and I kept these in order. In this
way I worked enough each month to pay my board and stay in day school.
Of course, I did not have, or get any money for my work, but I did not
worry about that. Miss Maggie Murray (afterwards Mrs. Washington) kept
me well supplied with clothes from the supply of second hand garments
which came to the school from northern friends.

The remainder of the time that I was at Tuskegee was spent in
practically the same way that I have already described. Many of the
students would complain about the food, but the fact that I was getting
three regular meals a day was enough for me. And too, I was now sleeping
in a bed, something that I seldom had done.

When burning bricks they would pay students cash for working at night,
and it was by this work that I got a little money now and then. It
usually takes from seven to eight days to burn a kiln of brick and
sometimes I would work every night until the kiln had been burned.

The one thing that made the deepest impression on me whi