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--Digging
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 Difficulties--The Cellar Workshop--Inventions--An
Early-Rising Machine--Novel Clocks--Hygrometers, 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--Teaching School--First
Lesson in Botany--More Inventions--The University of the
Wilderness.
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