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was the shabbiest I have yet received. The committee met 

 nie — three of them — and a carriage was ordered. We all rode 

 to the hotel, five minutes' walk, and I had the pleasure of 

 paying for the party — one dollar. Accommodations at the 

 hotel were fair, charge perfectly exorbitant. After the 

 lecture the secretary came up to me and handed me a roll 

 of bills, muttering indistinctly the word ^' seventy-five." 

 His manner was that of a sneak who was doing something 

 he was ashamed of. I said nothing, of course. There is 

 not a shadow of doubt that they had stipulated to pay a 

 hundred dollars, but chose to make twenty-five dollars by 

 this process. Well, if they can stand it I certainly can. 

 They will want me again, but will fail to get me. 



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I lectured in Ashtabula the other night in a howling 

 snowstorm ; had a crowd, and, although it was a small 

 place, they paid me seventy-five dollars, and earnestly 

 begged me to promise to come again next year. A teacher 

 drove over in his gig ten miles in the cold gale to attend 

 the lecture. He came to the tavern afterward and intro- 

 duced himself. He was a very fine, bright young fellow. 

 I commiserated his folly in coming out such an inclement 

 night. *' I would not take five hundred dollars," he replied, 

 "for what I have learned this night, and I must hear that 

 lecture again." Next day I got a dispatch to come to 

 Geneva the first vacant night. He said the lecture gave 

 him the first " view " he had ever had in science, and would 

 be the turning point of his studies. 



I go from place to place, getting into good quarters and 

 into all sorts of diabolical holes. At Mansfield I was to be 

 called for by the omnibus at five and a half a. m., to get the " 

 train at three-quarters and off at six. At a quarter to six it 

 had not come. At ten minutes of six I started, with a negro 

 boy to carry my valise, ran all the way, and jumped on to 



