My Boyhood and Youth 



from the farm work. After hearing my story, 

 the kind professor welcomed me to the glori- 

 ous University next, it seemed to me, to the 

 Kingdom of Heaven. After a few weeks in the 

 preparatory department I entered the Fresh- 

 man class. In Latin I found that one of the 

 books in use I had already studied in Scotland. 

 So, after an interruption of a dozen years, I 

 began my Latin over again where I had left 

 off; and, strange to say, most of it came back to 

 me, especially the grammar which I had com- 

 mitted to memory at the Dunbar Grammar 

 School. 



During the four years that I was in the 

 University, I earned enough in the harvest- 

 fields during the long summer vacations to 

 carry me through the balance of each year, 

 working very hard, cutting with a cradle four 

 acres of wheat a day, and helping to put it in 

 the shock. But, having to buy books and pay- 

 ing, I think, thirty-two dollars a year for in- 

 struction, and occasionally buying acids and 

 retorts, glass tubing, bell-glasses, flasks, etc., 

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