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 DifEculties 



— 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 Chien — Back to 

 Madison — Entering the University — Teach- 

 ing School — First Lesson in Botany — More 

 Inventions — The University of the Wilderness. 



INDEX 289 



