Contents 



VI. THE PLOUGHBOY .... . . 199 



The Crops Doing Chores The Sights and 

 Sounds of Winter Road-making The Spirit- 

 rapping Craze Tuberculosis among the Settlers 



A Cruel Brother The Rights of the Indians 



Put to the Plough at the Age of Twelve In 

 the Harvest-Field Over-Industry among the 

 Settlers Running the Breaking-Plough Dig- 

 ging a Well Choke-Damp Lining Bees. 



VII. KNOWLEDGE AND INVENTIONS . . 240 



Hungry for Knowledge Borrowing Books 



Paternal Opposition Snatched Moments 

 Early Rising proves a Way out of Difficulties 



The Cellar Workshop Inventions An 

 Early-Rising Machine Novel Clocks Hygro- 

 meters, etc. A Neighbor's Advice. 



VIII. THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSITY 262 



Leaving Home Creating a Sensation in 

 Pardeeville A Ride on a Locomotive At 

 the State Fair in Madison Employment in a 

 Machine-Shop at Prairie du Chieh Back to 

 Madison Entering the University Teach- 

 ing School First Lesson in Botany More 

 Inventions The University of the Wilderness. 



INDEX , ..... 289 



