FIFTY TEARS AMONG THE BEES 19 



her credit be it said tliat she spared no ]iains to curry out the 

 dying' wish of my father that the children sliould be allowed 

 to secure an education. She was a faithful Methodist; and, 

 although belonging to the two different churches, ray parents 

 usually went to church together, iirst to one church and then 

 to the other. 



When my raother 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 Southtcest). 



were iuipartially divided between tiie two denominations, thi-ee 

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



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

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

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

 second year 1 was advanced to fifty dollars. 



BEGINS STUDY OF MEDICINE. 



Then I undertook flie 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 ray reading tripped me 



