12 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



WORKS WAY THROUGH COLLEGE. 



I had learned just enough of ornamental penman- 

 ship to be able to write German text, and so got $44.00 

 for filling the names in 88 diplomas at the two com- 

 mencements. I taught a singing school; I woirked in 

 Prof. Jackson's garden at seven-and-a-half cents an hour ; 

 raised a crop of potatoes ; clerked at a town , election ; 

 peddled maps ; rang one of the college bells ; and, as it 

 was optional with the students whether they taught or 

 studied during the third term senior, I got $100.00 for 

 teaching during that term in an academy at Delhi, N. Y. 

 Neither were my studies slighted during my course, 

 which was shown by my taking the highest honor attain- 

 able, Phi Beta Kappa, which, however, was eaually taken 

 by a number of my class. 



I secured my diploma, allowing me to write A. B. 

 after my name, and left college with fifty dollars more in 

 my pocket than when I arrived there. It was not, how- 

 ever, so much what I earned as what I didn't spend that 

 helped me through. I kept a strict cash account, and if 

 I paid three cents postage on a letter or one cent for a 

 steel pen or two blocks of matches, it was carefully en- 

 tered, and probably a good many cents were saved be- 

 cause I knew if I spent them I must put it down in black 

 ink. 



CHEAP BOARD-BILLS. 



The item that gave me the greatest chance for econ- 

 omy was my board-bill. I boarded myself all the time 

 I was in college. My board cost me thirty-five cents a 

 week or less most of the time. The use of wheat helped 

 to keep down the bill. A bushel of whole wheat thor- 

 oughly boiled will do a lot of filling up. The last ten 

 weeks, with less horror of debt before me, I became ex- 

 travagant, and my board cost me sixty-six and a half 

 cents a week. 



