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students i^ bad, and we have no room for you here." 

 Harry seemed pained and surprised that I should so 

 address him. He pleaded hard for another chance. I 

 said, **What do you mean by another chance ?'' He re- 

 plied, ''Let me have a plot of land about as big as a 

 farm around here, and I will be responsible for it, doing 

 the work with my own hands, and if I am doing it alone 

 you can then test my work in comparison with other 

 students, and if I do not satisfy you, then turn me out. ' ' 

 So I allowed him to return. He was given five acres of 

 land for which he was charged rent. He was charged 

 for the use of oxen and tools. Three days a week he 

 attended lectures and laboratory. Three days he worked 

 on his plot. He employed as general handy-man, cook 

 and watchman, a little Christian hunchback. Harry 

 drew up a plan for his plot, growing general field crops, 

 and a vegetable plot, so as to grow most of the food he 

 needed. He was so successful and hard-working that he 

 soon had more vegetables than he could eat and his serv- 

 ant was taking the surplus to sell in the nearby village. 

 Harry soon had money that he had earned by his own 

 efforts in his pocket, and he held his head higher. He 

 whistled as he worked ; he had learned that by his own 

 efforts he was sure of a good living. At the end of the 

 year the books showed that he had made a net profit of 

 twenty dollars an acre on land that previously had not 

 yielded three dollars an acre net profit. This plot was 

 one of the show places of the farm. 



In February of the next year, after the corner-stone 

 laying of great Hindu University at Benares six of In- 

 dia's Maharajahs, several of them in their own special 

 trains stopped off at Allahabad to visit the Mission farm. 



As I was showing one of these kings around he stopped 



