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As soon as the school closed in the spring 

 Moyer and Roberts formed a verbal copartner- 

 ship and employed one journeyman and two ap- 

 prentices. Moyer was to receive $2 and I $1.50 

 per day and board. We also received twenty-five 

 cents a day out of the wages of each of the others 

 for the use of the tools, et cetera, with which we 

 furnished them. We usually began work imme- 

 diately after an early breakfast and worked until 

 sundown, with an hour's nooning and the time to 

 eat a 5 o'clock supper, taken out making a 

 twelve-hour day. 



The second winter I taught the Stillwell school 

 and received $1.25 per day and boarded round. 

 The school had become demoralized because of 

 teachers who were deficient in ability to control 

 large boys. Firm but just treatment and a few 

 osage-orange switches, carried me and the pupils 

 through safely. The larger boys got into the habit 

 of playing " fox and hounds " which resulted in 

 their not being present sometimes when the after- 

 noon session began. I requested them not to go 

 beyond the sound of the school bell; they soon 

 broke this rule and one day they found the school 

 door locked against them. When they had all 

 arrived I opened it and marched them all in and 



