My mind was then fixed that I should some day go
to school and I could not rest night or day I was so anxious to go to
school; but my dear mother could not send me. She had poor health and no
one to help her to take care of the younger children, and I had to work
and do the best I could with my books, hoping that the time would come
that I should see myself sitting in some school studying, the same time
asking mother to let two of the other children go to school every day.
She did let them go for awhile, but some one came and wanted her to let
them go to work out again and she let them go out to work:
Well, I said that I would go to school some day, and they had a fine
time laughing at my high ideas and I let them laugh all that they wanted
to, but I worked hard and long to get the means that I might be able to
go, as I said, to some pay school, where I could not be stopped at any
time. When I was almost ready to leave for some school the smallpox took
me, and I was laid aside for three or four years; that is, I was not
well, and thought that my plans were all broken. I still trusted in God,
for I knew that He would do all things for me as long as I put my trust
in Him.
Well, as time rolled on I found myself improving slowly and I was then
living with a dear, good lady by the name of Miss L.
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