FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES n 



credit be it said that she spared no pains to carry out the dying 

 wish of my father that the children should be allowed to secure 

 an education. She was a faithful Methodist; and, although 

 belonging to the two different churches, my parents usually 

 went to church together, first to one church and then to the 

 other. 



When my mother married the second time, she married a 

 Methodist, and as the children came to years of discretion they 



Fig. 1 — Home of the Author {from the Southwest) . 



were impartially divided between the two denominations, three 

 to each (there were six of us — myself and five sisters). 



Two years were taken out of my school life to clerk in a 

 country store three miles away. For the first year I got twenty- 

 four dollars and board, my mother doing my washing. The 

 second year I was advanced to fifty dollars. 



BEGINS STUDY OV MEDICINE. 



Then I undertook the study of medicine under the tutelage 

 of the leading — I am not sure but he was the only — village 

 physician. The Latin terms met in my reading tripped me 



